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  1. Proto Mongolic

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    Numerals
    The Proto-Mongolic numeral system appears to have been base-12 (duodecimal), rather than the more common base-10 system observed in later descendants, a peculiarity attributed to the typical number of hoofed animals present in a standard Bronze Age tribal holding (three herds of four animals each) [8].
    The reconstruction of the numeral 'four' ($\text{*dörvün}$) exhibits peculiar semantic drift in downstream languages,…