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    Default Numbers (1-10) recorded among shepherds in the past in some places of former Yugoslavia

    They used regular Serbo-Croatian words names for numbers, but also special ones that deviate from Serbian/Croatian standard.

    Serbian/Croatian (standard): 1 jedan, 2 dva, 3 tri, 4 četiri, 5 pet, 6 šest, 7 sedam, 8 osam, 9 devet, 10 deset

    Đevrske (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Đevrske): 1 jedan, 2 dodin, 3 divin, 4 dizin, 5 smokva, 6 dokva, 7 senga, 8 lenga, 9 kvare, 10 deset

    Vrana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrana,_Zadar_County): 1 jedan, 2 dodan, 3 divin, 4 dir, 5 penga, 6 renga, 7 smokva, 8 dokva, 9 tuti, 10 karakuš

    Some other parts of Bukovica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukovica,_Dalmatia): 1 unogalo, 2 dvogalo, 3 trogalo, 4 čevrgalo, 5 pegalo, 6 šegalo, 7 šejman, 8 dejman, 9 diviroga, 10 diplić

    Tuzla (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuzla): 1 odan, 2 dodan, 3 divi, 4 disi, 5 vanga, 6 lenga, 7 penga, 8 smokva, 9 bokva, 10 karakuša

    In Sarajevo and some places in Herzegovina: 1 jednogalo, 2 dvogalo, 3 trogalo, 4 čevrgalo, 5 pegalo, 6 šegalo, 7 segman, 8 degman, 9 develija


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    Members of some occupations in former Yugoslavia in the past created own secret language, as for example builders from Osat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osat) and Mijak builders (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mijaks). Maybe same case was with these shepherds.

    In the term for 1 from Bukovica can be seen Latin base. Smokva btw in Serbian/Croatian standard means a fig.

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    Terms for 2 from Đevrske (dodin) and Vrana (dodan) seems to have Latin base. Do might be from Latin duo (2).

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