Strange numbers

From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 6732
Date: 2001-03-24

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> The Quechua words for "five" and "six" are <pisca> and <soqta> (cf.
Aymara <phisca> and <suxta>).

Torsten:
And it seems they ("5" to "10") were borrowed all over South America.
Which makes sense, of course, if those borrowing languages were
languages of peoples in contact with the Incas, one way or the other.
But Macro-Carib (Yameo)?

Torsten

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