Whence the Kanum base-6 numeral system?

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 305-319

  Hammarström, Harald ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Kanum; Linguistic area; New Guinea; Number systems; Numerals

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950763697     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LITY.2009.014     Document Type: Article

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