Languages, numbers

[undyingking]

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?

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

Comments

[theo]

Hungarian! In that case the source was a colleague when I was a computer operator in London. But useless since I did not recall the correct language.

Basque is entirely beyond my experience although, as a pre-Indo-European isolate, it interests the archahaeologist in me.

And online research shows that the third language is Singhalese. I have never learned the cardinal numbers in Vietnamese despite being friendly with the owners of a Vietnamese take-away in Peckham, which would have seemed like an ideal opportunity. I must make the effort to distinguish Cantonese from Mandarin. I know only a few words of each and get them confused.