Two pus one makes thirteen: Senary numerals in the Morehead-Maro region

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 321-335

  Evans, Nicholas ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Linguistic area; New Guinea; Number systems; Numeral base; Numerals

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950757777     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LITY.2009.015     Document Type: Article

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