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Any thoughts or impressions on the approach I've taken here? I don't have that much experience as to how closely it mimics real-world numeral systems, but I took a similar approach for the Deevie numeral system and I definitely like the development and the results. The details of your process are i...

I like it, it reminds me very much the Futhark and related scripts with a little bit of Devanagari. Phonemically its basically identical to English though isn't it? I assume with the development of the language, the letters would be replaced with the actual phenomes of the language instead. If not t...

Since you're basing things on binary counting on one hand, an observation: The 0-to-31-on-one-hand technique can be treated as the basis for a base-32 number system. i.e. I could count 0 to 31 on my right hand, then express 32 as 1-on-left and 0-on-right. This lets you express positive integers up ...

Myself I lived in a city of 600 people and later 1500 before moving to a village* of over 60,000 people on the outskirts of a major city where I moved later in life with close to 3 million residents. So I wonder what constitutes a large or small population to you? To me 6000 sounds pretty large for ...

Since I was a kid and I came across the Babylonian 12/60 base number system I've always been into the idea. We still use a their number system today for time and geometry. One of the things that I found amusing/odd was that even though they had a complex positional numeric system their individual "n...

Interesting idea. I pretty much split my time thinking about conlang and building a real programming language, so it would make sense to join the two.