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[-] Beryl@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It supposedly comes from originaly counting in base 20 ( a.k.a : vigesimal system) in some proto-european language. There are traces of it in breton, albanese, basque and danish for example. Even in english, there is a reminiscence of vigesimal, in the "score", see for example Lincoln's Gettysburg Address "Fourscore and seven years ago..." means 87 years ago.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

But Basque isnt an Indo-European language its a Paleo-European isolate. Cultural mixing not with standing.

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