Dayak Ngaju /salawi/ is 'Twenty-Five', not 'Twenty'

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CLDF dataset derived from Greenhill et al.'s "Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database" from 2020.

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Dayak Ngaju /salawi/ is 'Twenty-Five', not 'Twenty' #13

Closed barlowrussell closed 2 years ago

barlowrussell commented 2 years ago

For Dayak Ngaju [ngaj1237], the form /salawi/ is glossed as 'Twenty', but it should be glossed as 'Twenty-Five' (Suryanyahu 2013: 130). (A loan from Javanese?) By all accounts, '20' in Dayak Ngaju is a reflex of duha puluq.

SimonGreenhill commented 2 years ago

updated, thanks Russell