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A long time ago...
October 10, 2007 by Anonymous, 2 years 6 weeks ago
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...I watched a TV documentary (BBC Horizon, I think) about Paleolinguistcs. This asserted that the words for 'one' and 'two' in all human languages shared the same root, but the words for numbers above three did not.
The implication drawn was that when early humans migrated out of Africa, their counting system was 'one, two, lots' and higher numbers were only named in various different cultures later on.
It sounded like a fascinating field...sadly, I've heard nothing about it since.
Dan Ibekwe