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from 1 to 9 are, as is shown above, the common Semitic words 
used from the earliest time and still used, in Arabia and the 
neighbouring parts of the Asiatic Continent, to denote these num- 
bers, then the Oceanic fulu, turu is probably also the common 
Semitic word for 10, that is, if ¢wrw be really a variant for fulu. 
As to the word for 1,000, Tagala and Bisaya libu, livu, Malay 
ribu, Java ewa, Samoan afe, Malagasy arivu, Santo ruwun (Him- 
yaritic alifan) need only to be placed alongside the common 
Semitic word, as in alapu, alef, alfu, olof (1 elided as in Samoan), . 
without remark. 
In fine, this summary of the Oceanic and the Asiatic numerals 
will show how they correspond. 
Oceanic Asiatic. 
1 te, do, aida ade, ahad, hhda 
2 ro (-ro), rua, trua tharo, tarawah, trai 
3 telu t’loa 
4 ampat, efatra arbaat 
5 kma (jma), lima khemah, khomo 
6 eni(na), ono (n for ¢) yitah 
7 pitu ibet 
8 lapan, panu, valu tamani, t’mani 
9 tsiwo, siam, sivy sa’ah, tsa’am 
10 turu (!), fulu, &c. ‘asharat’, ’asartu, &c. (Syriac 
‘shar, masculine) 
1000 libu, &e. alapu, Xe. 
