Afro-Austronesian numerals ?

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 62
Date: 2001-04-13

Piotr:
>The PA reconstruction is *telu, and the Tagalog form derives from
> >reduplicated *ta-telu (originally used in counting human beings). >Same
>with *duSa, *da-duSa (> dalawa) 'two'.

Ah, it's all starting to make more sense now. Cool. Thanks, P :)

- gLeN

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