From: Harald Hammarström
Message: 34134
Date: 2004-09-13
> > >> presumed to be fairly recent in Finnish since the original FUThis is misleading. Only 2 is reconstructable to Uralic. 1-6, 10 (2-4
> > >> speakers had a base 6 number system, [...]
> >
> > Did they? Can you give me some examples? Not that I object to
> it, ...
>
> > Petusek
>
> I just restated from Nykysoumen Sanakirja by Häkkinen p 133.
>
> It is also known that the numbers 1 to 6 are related in most Uralic
> languages, but numbers above 7 are not, so base 10 counting seems to
> have evolved later.