From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 22 2:25:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD0237B401 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 02:25:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id E8CD0816BB; Wed, 22 May 2002 18:55:42 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 18:55:42 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Brad Knowles , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Sanskrit numbers (was: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c)) Message-ID: <20020522185542.K45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020521103710.C71209@lpt.ens.fr> <20020521133026.L71209@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522112854.A26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522064417.GA893@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522105240.B46377@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522183052.J45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522111104.B47352@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020522111104.B47352@lpt.ens.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 22 May 2002 at 11:11:04 +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey said on May 22, 2002 at 18:30:52: >> So, shall we move on to German numbers? > > Anything interesting to say about them? Well, they're backwards, like in Sanskrit. > The other languages I know are boringly normal. The only > interesting aspect is the similarity of numbers, and many other > words, in some Indian languages (Sanskrit origin) and European > languages. Well, Sanskrit is uncannily close to ancient Greek and Latin that it's just not funny, and the numbers are backwards in the same way as German: French English German Sanskrit soixante-trois sixty-three drei-und-sechzig tri:sasti (hyphens in the German to show the individual components only; as we've already established earlier in the thread, nouns get run together in German). Apart from that, it's interesting to note that Sanskrit is closer to the Swiss pronunciation of French numbers :-) soixante sixty sechzig sasti septante seventy siebzig saptati octante eighty achtzig asiti nonante ninety neunzig navati And yes, sorry for the missing diacritical marks in Sanskrit, but I don't have the correct character set handy. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message