Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 18:55:42 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, 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> In-Reply-To: <20020522111104.B47352@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20020521103710.C71209@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111703b90fc048bd8f@[10.0.1.4]> <20020521133026.L71209@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111705b90fe1afee46@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522112854.A26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522064417.GA893@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111723b910fac1be02@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522105240.B46377@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522183052.J45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522111104.B47352@lpt.ens.fr>
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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
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