Counting in different languages

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Bozewani
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13 Mar 2008, 1:28 pm

Well, just for a laugh I wanted to post this, how many people count in different languages? (up to 10, not to a million :lol: )

well

Spanish is obviously
uno
dos
tres
cuatro
cinco
ses
siete
ocho
nueve
diez

In russian
adin
dva
trie
chia
mat
ses
sem
vosem
devet
diec

and the Cyrillic alphabet sucks in English

in Afrikaans
een
twee
drie
vier
vyf
ses
sewe
agt
nege
tien

in Xhosa
nye
mbini
ntathu
ne
ntlanu
ntandathu
sixhenkxe
sibhozo
lithoba
lishumi

in Zulu
kunye
kubili
kuthathu
kune
isihlanu
isithupha
isikhombisa
isishiyagalombili
isishiyagalolunye
ishumi

wonderful, eh?

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13 Mar 2008, 1:46 pm

English:

one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten

Portuguese:

um
dois
três
quatro
cinco
seis
sete
oito
nove
dez

German:

eins
zwei
drei
vier
fünf
sechs
sieben
acht
neun
zehn

(I hope I got the spelling right)

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13 Mar 2008, 1:48 pm

Russian's hard, the letters spelling the word doesn't make since to me. There's no way I could pronounce their words in the correct accent either. Celtic and Gaelic are the same way.

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13 Mar 2008, 1:52 pm

Japanese:

一 ichi
二 ni
三 san
四 shi
五 go
六 roku
七 shichi
八 hachi
九 kyuu
十 juu

French:
un
deux
trois
quatre
cinq
six
sept
huit
neuf
dix

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13 Mar 2008, 2:08 pm

in hebrew:

ehad
shtaim
shalosh
arba
hamesh
shesh
sheva
shmone
tesha
eser

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13 Mar 2008, 2:10 pm

Always wanted to learn some Hebrew.

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13 Mar 2008, 3:50 pm

In Cherokee Indian:
saw-woo
tah-lee
cho-ee
nuh-gee
he-s-gee
soo-dah-lee
ga-li-kwo-gee
chaw-nay-la
sew-nay-la
s-go-he

Some of it is proably spelled wrong cause I just spelled it like it sounds when you say it. My Great-Grandfather taught it to me when I was young. He was Cherokee, and my Great-Grandmother was Choctaw Indian.

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13 Mar 2008, 4:08 pm

Polish:
jeden
dwa
trzy
cztery
piec
szesc
siedem
osiem
dziewiec
dziesiec

(some of them are spelled with diacritics but I don't know if everybody would be able to reproduce the font on his computer).

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13 Mar 2008, 5:14 pm

Lojban:
pa
re
ci
vo
mu
xa
ze
bi
so
pano

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13 Mar 2008, 5:42 pm

Dutch

een
twee
drie
vier
vijf
zes
zeven
acht
negen
tien

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13 Mar 2008, 6:26 pm

I can count in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language.

English is known, and Spanish has been shown. So, American Sign Language:

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13 Mar 2008, 7:19 pm

Mandarin:
Yi
Er
San
Si
Wu
Liu
Qi
Ba
Jiu
Shi
(Probably not 100% right, but that's the best I could remember. Sorry I didn't include the characters, but we don't have any language packs installed on our computer.)

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13 Mar 2008, 9:42 pm

in Southern
wun
tyu
three
fo
fahv
siyux
sehvun
ate
nahn
teyun...

Adjin
dva
tre
(not sure) chetriye
pyat
syem
vawsyet
dyevet
dyeset

but that's from a phrase book...ya nye znayu...