Supyire, numbers built from 1, 5, 10, 20, 80, and 400 Supyire, a Niger-Congo language spoken in Mali has basic number words for 1, 5, 10, 20, 80 and 400, and builds the rest of the numbers from those.

Let’s take a hypothetical case: Assume that the answers to the ten riddles, converted to digits, are 0, 2, 13, 19, 20, 37, 94, 98, 25, and 1. Now, suppose that you are told that a subset of the ...

We have a broad array of words for numbers: I can count from zero to 10, and beyond, using number words, and there are other quantifiers such as “few”, “several”, “many”, “a couple ...