Numerals in Akebu
This article presents an overview of the numeral system in Akebu, a Kwa language of Togo. The Akebu numeral system is a decimal one and contains simple numerals from ‘1’ to ‘9’ and decimal bases for ‘10’, ‘100’, and ‘1,000’. The former have noun class agreement markers, while the latter do not. Only...
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| description | This article presents an overview of the numeral system in Akebu, a Kwa language of Togo. The Akebu numeral system is a decimal one and contains simple numerals from ‘1’ to ‘9’ and decimal bases for ‘10’, ‘100’, and ‘1,000’. The former have noun class agreement markers, while the latter do not. Only some noun classes are compatible with numerals, but among them there are both plural and singular classes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5bc6c79eb8b34268bf961c4f6846c7a32022-12-21T18:36:42ZengDe GruyterOpen Linguistics2300-99692020-07-016134435610.1515/opli-2020-0107opli-2020-0107Numerals in AkebuMakeeva Nadezhda0Shluinsky Andrey1Department of African Languages, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 125009, Moscow, RussiaDepartment of African Languages, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 125009, Moscow, RussiaThis article presents an overview of the numeral system in Akebu, a Kwa language of Togo. The Akebu numeral system is a decimal one and contains simple numerals from ‘1’ to ‘9’ and decimal bases for ‘10’, ‘100’, and ‘1,000’. The former have noun class agreement markers, while the latter do not. Only some noun classes are compatible with numerals, but among them there are both plural and singular classes.https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2020-0107numeralsnoun classnoun phraseakebukwa |
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