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undyingking) wrote2008-11-06 11:43 am
undyingking) wrote2008-11-06 11:43 am
Entry tags:
Languages, numbers
My mum just sent me this interesting list of the first ten numbers in various different languages, grouped by related origin:
She didn't include a list of which language was which, though, and I only knew a few of them for sure. But I figured I could have a decent educated guess at the others. Here below are my identifications, white-on-whited so highlight if you want to see. But before you do that, why not have a try yourself, in a comment?
She didn't include a list of which language was which, though, and I only knew a few of them for sure. But I figured I could have a decent educated guess at the others. Here below are my identifications, white-on-whited so highlight if you want to see. But before you do that, why not have a try yourself, in a comment?
1 Sanskrit?
2 Hindi
3 Bengali?
4 English
5 Dutch?
6 German
7 Swedish?
8 Latin
9 French
10 Italian
11 Spanish
12 Portuguese
13 Russian
14 Greek
15 Welsh
16 Gaelic / Irish?
17 no idea, clearly not Indo-European -- Basque maybe?
18 Arabic
19 Farsi?
20 Finnish?
21 Hungarian
22 sounds South-East Asian, Tagalog maybe?
23 ditto, Thai maybe?
24 Japanese