Re: About Turkish

[jporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Julie Porter)]

>BTW, here are the numbers and months in Turkish:
>
>      1 = bir     10 = on      100 = yüz
>      2 = iki     20 = yirmi   200 = iki yüz
>      3 = üç      30 = otuz
>      4 = dört    40 = kIrk
>      5 = beS     50 = elli
>      6 = altI    60 = altmIS
>      7 = yedi    70 = yetmiS
>      8 = sekiz   80 = seksen
>      9 = dokuz   90 = doksan
>
>     11 = on bir
>     12 = on iki
>        = ...
This brings up a slighty off topic question. As members may recall, my main
interest is in clockwork toys. Turkey was the major importer of these
'objects de vertu'.
Many clocks and watches were incorporated with music and automata along
with precious and semi precious stones. The dials are often paintesd with
traingles and half moons for numbers. Some time ago I was asked how these
symbols were used to perform calculations. In other words, do they act like
roman numbers, or arabic numbers?
Part of the problem is that these items were produced in Swizerland, with
cases made in London (for the hallmark) I don't think the dial painters
(who were most likey swiss or engish) always got the copy correct. These
are the same dial makers who used IIII instead of IV.
The makings of the minutes (chapter ring) are of particular intrerest as
this should go from 0 to 59.

-julieP