base-20 (was Re: Numbers from 1 to 12 in Ayeri)

Jörg wrote: "I am confused.  You say the Ayeri use a base-12 system, yet you
give the meanings of the larger numeral words (_menea_, _mennim_ etc.) as
`10^6', `10^9', etc.  If you mean powers of 12, you should write `12^6',
`12^9', etc. Anything else is misleading.  You also should not use words
such as `hundred', `thousand', `million', etc. when referring to powers of
12.  They simply are not the same numbers."

Hmm... I wanted something exotic so I made Kosi base-20, but I don't really
know how such a system works. I know that there are separate lexemes for the
numbers one through twenty in base-20 languages (Kosi üs, ket, kom, ner, öt,
sab, het, kaes, kic, den, len, töl, tin, von, sihn, sen, ein, naem, tuan),
but not much else... Could someone please enlighten me?

Thanks,

Trebor
"Oysters are a fine thing, so are strawberries: but mashed together?"

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