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==Occurrence in human languages==
{{See also|Quaternary counting system}}
Many or all of the [[Chumashan languages]] (spoken by the Native American [[Chumash people|Chumash peoples]]) originally used a quaternary numeral system, in which the names for numbers were structured according to multiples of four and sixteen, instead of ten.  There is a surviving list of [[Ventureño language]] number words up to thirty-two written down by a Spanish priest ca. 1819.<ref name="Beeler_1986"/>

The [[Kharosthi#Numerals|Kharosthi numerals]] (from the languages of the tribes of Pakistan and Afghanistan) have a partial quaternary numeral system from one to ten.