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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Korean #7
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In article <5bnr4r$5m8@news.postech.ac.kr>,
Thomas Duvernay <duvernay@sejong.dongguk.ac.kr> wrote:
>Patrick Chew (patchew@uclink2.berkeley.edu) wrote:
>: Bill Vaughan wrote:
>
>: >>       7: ilgop (<*yl-[*gu]-ps)
>: >>       8: ydlp (<*yl-tu(l)-ps)
>: >>       9: ahop (<*yl-han(a)-ps)
>: >>       10: yl
>
>FWIW, the above-mentioned numbers in Korean come from their ordinal system,
>which is from the Korean tongue.  'Gu' is 'nine' in the cardinal system,
>which comes from Chinese.

Where on earth did you get this impression?  Both the native Korean and
the Sino-Korean number systems are cardinal, and each takes affixes to
from an ordinal system.

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