golden-notebook:

 the-justsara said: Those similarities you pointed out are also true for Cantonese/Mandarin Chinese.

Yeah, Korean has two sets of numbers! One is “Sino-Korean” and you use them in specific circumstances, and then there are pure “Korean” numbers that you use for others. The Sino-Korean numbers (Chinese) include “Sam” and “Sa”

I like to think of the Sino-Korean numbers as being “identifiers” and the Korean numbers as being “quantifiers”.  Not always true, but a hard and fast rule when in doubt.

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   I like to think of the Sino-Korean numbers as being “identifiers” and the Korean numbers as being “quantifiers”. Not...

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