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Barry Garcia wrote: > Question: So, what is the explanation for these? Don't most romance langs > use the word for 10 + the smaller number in order to make the teens past > 15? It also appears that when you hit 18, you subtract from 20 to get that > number. Was that a latin development, or is this something unique to > Cardajiñinsa? In Classical Latin, 11-17 were formed from small number plus 10 (one-ten, two-ten, three-ten, etc.), 18 and 19 were literally "two from twenty" and "one from twenty", as were all 8's and 9's below 100. -- Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon A nation without a language is a nation without a heart - Welsh proverb ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42