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Question 1

How many non-Sino-Tibetan records are there in the STEDT database?

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Question 2

What is the Nepali word for ‘twenty’?

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Question 3

What languages (other than Nepali) have a form meaning ‘twenty’ with the same spelling as the Nepali word?

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Question 4

What subgroups do these languages (from Question 3) belong to?

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Question 5

What is the Nepali word for twenty-two?

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Question 6

What languages appear to have borrowed the Nepali word for twenty-two?

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Question 7

What is the Nepali word for twenty-nine?

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Question 8

What is the Nepali word for nine?

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Question 9

What is the Magar word for twenty-nine?

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Question 10

What is the Magar word for twenty-two?

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Question 11

What PTB etymon does Magar nis reflect?

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