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Number of mora in Japanese name of n in Old Japanese.
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%I #6 Jan 06 2017 07:45:29

%S 2,2,1,1,2,1,2,1,3,2,7,7,6,6,7

%N Number of mora in Japanese name of n in Old Japanese.

%C In 1916, Shinmura Izuru noted that the attested Goguryeo numerals 3, 5, 7 and 10 are similar to Japanese (cf. Wikipedia, Classification of the Japonic languages).

%C Korean linguist Yi Ki Mun, in a journal article published in 1972, noted that the Goguryeo language and Old Japanese share a number of identical numerals. The Goguryeo numerals mil (3), uc (5), na-nin (7) and tok (10) correspond to mi (3), i-tsu (5), na-na (7) and toowoo (10) (cf. Korean Sentry Forum).

%D Yi Ki-Mun, Kugosa kaesol [Introduction to the history of Korean], Seoul: Minjung Sogwan, (1972).

%D I. Shinmura, Kokugo oyobi chosengo no sushi ni tsuite [Regarding numerals in Japanese and Korean], Geibun, 7.2, 7.4 (1916).

%H P. Downing, <a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6879g2fw">Japanese Numeral Classifiers: A Syntactic, Semantic, and Functional Profile</a>, Dissertations, Department of Linguistics, University of California, 1984.

%H Korean Sentry Forum, <a href="http://www.koreansentry.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp;t=3130#p22020">Comparing the development of Korean and Japanese languages</a>.

%H R. A. Miller, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/488820">The Altaic Numerals and Japanese</a>, The Journal-Newsletter of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Oct. 15, 1969), 14-29.

%H Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_the_Japonic_languages#Koguryoic_hypothesis">Classification of the Japonic languages - Koguryoic hypothesis</a>.

%H Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals#Old_Japanese">Japanese numerals - Old Japanese</a>.

%H Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Japanese">Old Japanese</a>.

%H Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goguryeo_language">Goguryeo language</a>.

%e hito, huta, mi, yo, itu, mu, nana, ya, kokono, too, too amari hito, too amari huta, too amari mi, too amari yo, too amari ito (cf. Downing, 1984).

%Y Cf. A261126.

%K nonn,word,more

%O 1,1

%A _Felix Fröhlich_, Nov 20 2016