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Number words have changed significantly since the introduction of public schooling
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Available web discussions suggest number words may be shifting in some languages, while phylogenetic research indicates that low-limit number words are generally preserved across millennia.

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Have words for numbers changed since the introduction of public ...
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# Have words for numbers changed since the introduction of public schools? Tags: language-change, numerals - Score: 4 - Views: 201 - Answers: 2 - Answered: yes - Asked by: Matthias Schreiber (323 rep) - Asked: 2016-09-05 - Edited: 2018-12-14 - Site: linguistics ## Question Obviously language changes, which is the reason why numbers have many different names in languages. Comparing the German "einundzwanzig" (one-and-twenty) with the English "twenty one" shows what I mean. My question is about changes that happened naturally and without influence of another language. I got curious in this because, if math is offered in a public school, then a child gets to know the numbers by the name of their language. It gets ingrained into them and thus it doesn't make sense for an adult to suddenly change the word for a number and even less sense for a school to do the same. Is there any language which has undergone such a change since the introduction of public schools? If there are indeed such languages, how could they undergo such a change? ## Answers ### Answer by user6726 (score: 6) In many Bantu languages of Kenya and Tanzania, numbers are now changing, especially those above 10.
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The history of number words in the world's languages—what have we learnt so far?
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The history of number words in the world's languages—what have we learnt so far? - PMC Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci . 2021 Mar 22;376(1824):20200206. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0206 # The history of number words in the world's languages—what have we learnt so far? 1,✉ - Author information - Article notes - Copyright and License information 1School of General and Applied Linguistics, University of Waikato, Knighton Road, Hilcrest, 3216, Hamilton, New Zealand One contribution of 17 to a theme issue ‘ Reconstructing prehistoric languages’ ✉ Corresponding author. Accepted 2020 Sep 24; Issue date 2021 May 10. © 2021 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. PMC Copyright notice PMCID: PMC8059502 PMID: 33745311 ## Abstract For over 100 years, researchers from various disciplines have been enthralled and occupied by the study of number words. This article discusses implications for the study of deep history and human evolution that arise from this body of work. Phylogenetic modelling shows that low-limit number words are preserved across thousands of years, a pattern consistently observed in several language families. Cross-linguistic frequencies
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