Feature/Chapter 131: Numeral Bases

Bernard Comrie

Feature Combination [help]

You may combine this feature with another one.
Select the feature for comparison by typing its name or number in the form below.

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Map Configuration

You may configure the appearance of the map using the tools below and then hit

Select icons for the values [help]

You may select different icons to display for each value of the feature by clicking on the icon and then choosing from the palette of icons which will appear.
Clicking the "show map" button will load a map showing the feature's datapoints using the currently selected icons.
Clicking the "languages" links will display a list of all languages which are recorded having the corresponding value for this feature, and links to references which corroborate these recordings.

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	Decimal	(125 languages) [close]

	Hybrid vigesimal-decimal	(22 languages) [close]

	Pure vigesimal	(20 languages) [close]

	Other base	(5 languages) [close]

	Extended body-part system	(4 languages) [close]

	Restricted	(20 languages) [close]

	total:	196

Click to reset icon selection to default values.

Choose the size of the icons on the map [help]

Move the slider to adjust the size of the icons to be drawn on the map.

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Choose the drawing order of values [help]

By default, icons for values will be drawn by decreasing number of languages, i.e. icons for the value with the fewest languages on top.
Reorder the values by dragging them to the layer you want the icons drawn.

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Extended body-part system (4)
Other base (5)
Pure vigesimal (20)
Restricted (20)
Hybrid vigesimal-decimal (22)
Decimal (125)