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From: enedervo@adobe.com (Eric Nedervold)
Subject: Re: Danish Numbers (was: Linguistics for Kids)
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 20:39:00 GMT
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In article <3kbu2r$tm@hitchcock.dfki.uni-sb.de> uwe@mpi-sb.mpg.de writes:
>The construction is not limited to Germanic languages.  

Nepali uses "paune" to indicate "quarter 'til," but not only in clock
time constructions.

"paa~ch" -- "five"
"paune paa~ch" -- "four and three-quarters"

--Eric




