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==Basic cognates==

===Numbers 1-12===

All Lahob languages have a duodecimal numeral system. Here are the numbers from 1 to 12 (1012) in some of them. Note that there is no common word for "zero" (most of them use the word for "nothing"; Chlouvānem has the Lällshag borrowing ''ajrā''). The Proto-Lahob numerals for three and six are based on finger counting, being the word for "finger" and its dual form (some languages have innovated a newer word for finger with a later derivation, cf. Chl. ''pamuvis'', Yeł. Lawo ''kpim̃í''); Kenaywanic and Tłašnelek also have the root *den, "phalanx", for one – which is reflected in all languages' word for Ɛ, *wewʕe-den, or "one phalanx more [to twelve]". ~~Some~~ languages~~, notably Nayzehenyn ones,~~ have three as a sub-base, and their word for twelve is "four fingers" or "four times three".

All Lahob languages have a duodecimal numeral system. Here are the numbers from 1 to 12 (1012) in some of them. Note that there is no common word for "zero" (most of them use the word for "nothing"; Chlouvānem has the Lällshag borrowing ''ajrā''). The Proto-Lahob numerals for three and six are based on finger counting, being the word for "finger" and its dual form (some languages have innovated a newer word for finger with a later derivation, cf. Chl. ''pamuvis'', Yeł. Lawo ''kpim̃í''); Kenaywanic and Tłašnelek also have the root *den, "phalanx", for one – which is reflected in all languages' word for Ɛ, *wewʕe-den, or "one phalanx more [to twelve]". Nayzehenyn languages have three as a sub-base and their word for twelve is "four fingers" or "four times three".

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 ===Numbers 1-12===
-All Lahob languages have a duodecimal numeral system. Here are the numbers from 1 to 12 (10<sub>12</sub>) in some of them. Note that there is no common word for "zero" (most of them use the word for "nothing"; Chlouvānem has the Lällshag borrowing ''ajrā''). The Proto-Lahob numerals for three and six are based on finger counting, being the word for "finger" and its dual form (some languages have innovated a newer word for finger with a later derivation, cf. Chl. ''pamuvis'', Yeł. Lawo ''kpim̃í''); Kenaywanic and Tłašnelek also have the root *den, "phalanx", for one – which is reflected in all languages' word for Ɛ, *wewʕe-den, or "one phalanx more [to twelve]".<br/>Some languages, notably Nayzehenyn ones, have three as a sub-base, and their word for twelve is "four fingers" or "four times three".
+All Lahob languages have a duodecimal numeral system. Here are the numbers from 1 to 12 (10<sub>12</sub>) in some of them. Note that there is no common word for "zero" (most of them use the word for "nothing"; Chlouvānem has the Lällshag borrowing ''ajrā''). The Proto-Lahob numerals for three and six are based on finger counting, being the word for "finger" and its dual form (some languages have innovated a newer word for finger with a later derivation, cf. Chl. ''pamuvis'', Yeł. Lawo ''kpim̃í''); Kenaywanic and Tłašnelek also have the root *den, "phalanx", for one – which is reflected in all languages' word for Ɛ, *wewʕe-den, or "one phalanx more [to twelve]".<br/> Nayzehenyn languages have three as a sub-base and their word for twelve is "four fingers" or "four times three".
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