It’s coming from the abacus, meaning most likely all of Asian languages have this.
I wonder about Arabic ones ?
It’s coming from the abacus, meaning most likely all of Asian languages have this.
I wonder about Arabic ones ?
Well if you can count to ten in mandarin, you can count to 100.
It’s literally 5 10 2, 5 10 3 for 52, 53 etc.
Add one more word for hundreds, one more for thousands.
After that it gets tough cause numbers beyond thousands are split by packs of 10 thousands, not hundred thousands like most western world (I guess).
Similar to the lakh in Indian
Ça va ? Ça va. Et toi ça va ? Ça va
German, Cantonese, mandarin, English, French.
I used to know in Swahili too, does that count ?