Are Numbers The Same In All Languages
There are many other ways. Our numerals come from Arabic, as, I believe, Arabs were at the forefront of advanced mathematics in the Middle Ages, when such numbers first began to spread.
Romans used the famous I, X, D, C, M, etc in various combinations, Georgian language uses their letters to represent numerals, Chinese-derived Asian scripts use their own numerals, and so forth and so on. Everyone uses Arabic numerals for mathematics, as they are well suited to computations in base 10, which is the number base in which modern math is based. Some examples of non-base ten number systems are French, which is vigesimal (base 20) so that the number ninety translates to four times twenty and ten. (Quatre vingt dix) Babylonians had base 60, if I remember correctly, some Australian languages have base 3, and even English has remnants of base 12.
There are perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through creolization and de novo (and occasionally through language planning).
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Furthermore, any living language is in a continual state of change. Both Spanish and English are continuing to add words — English primarily through the addition of technology-related words and words related to popular culture, while Spanish expands in the same way and through the adoption of English words. Sep 21, 2010 - Numbers In Other Languages? You'll be pleased to learn that—alongside all other European languages including Greek—Russian uses the same characters. The Japanese will also use the older form of Chinese numerals—but in daily lives the Arabic characters win out.
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(Original words for numbers up to twelve, a dozen as a measurement, a gross as twelve sets of twelve.) • • • •.