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undyingking ([personal profile] undyingking) wrote2008-11-06 11:43 am
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Languages, numbers

My mum just sent me this interesting list of the first ten numbers in various different languages, grouped by related origin:

Numbers

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

[identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
I'm really busy atm and the text is hard to read on my screen. :(
8 is probably wrong but I always find it hard to differentiate Romanic languages I don't speak.

[identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm, I was too lazy to retype it ;-)