Okaikiar numbers are base 6 for precisely the reason Ph. D noted.  You
can count to 35 on two hands...

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Michael Poxon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> That's interesting. Omina counts in 12s, with the "whole hand" being 6
> rather than zero.
> Mike
>>>
>>> So the speakers of your language have six hands? Or how do I
>>> understand "each hand represents a single digit"?
>>
>>
>> I think he means that a fist = zero, one finger = 1, etc.,
>> so each hand represents digits 0 through 5, i.e. base six.
>>
>> --Ph. D.
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