COUNTING NUMBERS IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES FULL

96В вЂ“ un ar bymtheg a phedwar ugainВ вЂ“ 1 on (5В + 10) and (4 x 20).79В вЂ“ pedwar ar bymtheg a thrigainВ вЂ“ 4 on (5В + 10) and (3 x 20).88В вЂ“ wyth a phedwar ugainВ вЂ“ 8 and (4 x 20)ДЄnd all those which are not multiples of 20 except 50 (30, 70 and 90)В go along the lines of the first examples, mixing base 20 with 15 as a reference point.How does the traditional Welsh counting system work?ДЄs weвЂ™ve already seen with Basque, Welsh is also a vigesimal system, but in this case things get a little messier because it sometimes uses 15 as a reference point as well as some other exceptions IвЂ™ll mention below.Д®verything isВ pretty normal up until number 15, but then, as I mentioned before, 15 is used as a reference point and the following numbers add up on it.ДЇrom there on, all the tens which are a multiple of 20 (20, 40, 60 and 80) follow the same logic as Basque,

However, the traditional system is still widely used in certain contexts, such as giving ages.ДЄnd now, without further ado, letвЂ™s get into the fun part рџЂ.

Interestingly enough, both are still used, although the younger generations tend to use the modern systemВ much more than the older ones since thatвЂ™s what theyвЂ™re taught at school when their education is done in Welsh. The traditional one, which is the one weвЂ™re going to talk about here, and the modern one,В a regular decimal system.

The first thing I should mention is that the Welsh language actually has two different systems. YouвЂ™ll understand why I say that a few lines below рџ™‚. Since Basque was just not вЂњexoticвЂќ enough, IвЂ™m bringingВ Welsh to you just to balance things a little bit.

COUNTING NUMBERS IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES FULL

However, the number 100 has its own name вЂњehunвЂќ so apparently itвЂ™s not considered as 5 x 20.Д¬lick here for a full 1-100 list of Basque numbers.

89 вЂ“ laurogeita bederatzi вЂ“ (4 Г— 20) and 9.

68В вЂ“ hirurogeita zortzi вЂ“ (3 Г— 20) and 8.

Up until the number 29 everything is quite familiar to us, but from that on, вЂ™20-nessвЂ™ kicks in and makes number 30 turn into вЂњ20 and 10вЂќ, number 40 into вЂњ2 x 20вЂќВ and so forth. In spite of its vigesimal nature, BasqueвЂ™s counting system is rather easy to grasp since it doesnвЂ™t contain exceptions or mixtures ofВ any other systems, as itвЂ™s usually the case. Image: Daniele Schirmo вЂ“ Wikipedia Commons The first one will be easy, pinky promise рџ‰. So now that we know what вЂњdecimalвЂќ and вЂњvigesimalвЂќ is, letвЂ™s take a closer look at Basque and Welsh. The interesting thing about the languages IвЂ™m going to tell you about is that they barely use that system, but a вЂњvigesimalвЂќ one (or combinations of it with others), which means their numbers revolve around groups of 20. Just like the examples I gave you at the very beginning of this post, you take a word for вЂњ60вЂќ, you think of it as 6 times 10 and then you add вЂњ3вЂќ to it. Most of the numerical systems you may be familiar with are вЂњdecimal systemsвЂќ which means they are based around the number 10 and its multiples. Image: Designed by Vvstudio вЂ“ A little bit ofВ background TodayвЂ™s turn will be Welsh and Basque, but before getting into specificsвЂ¦ These languages are Basque, Welsh, Breton and Danish, but for the sake of readability IвЂ™ll divide it into two parts. Which brings us to todayвЂ™s topic! Here IвЂ™ll beВ telling you about unusual ways of counting used in 4 European languages. Surprisingly enough, we donвЂ™t really need to go very far to find some examples, we have them here in Europe. (Notice how IвЂ™m leaving a big one out? IвЂ™m looking at you, French!).ДЄctually, it turns out that there are quite a bunch of ways to express a quantity and of course not all languages use the same one. Weeeeell, if youвЂ™re nodding your head after reading that, perhapsВ you are a native speaker of one of the big European languages such as English, Spanish, Italian or maybe even German, even though they turn things around a little, but itвЂ™s still pretty much the same. Counting systems seem like a pretty straightforward thing, right? You just add a few simple numbers like 60+3 to get 63 or 80+7 to formВ 87.

Counting numbers in different languages