other forms of counting!

[~Kitty~]

There are many other languages that have their own counting language.

So this thread is to make a collection of all forms of counting!


The very basic that we all know is

One two three.

Heres some variations.


Yi Er San.(Chinese version.)

Ein Zwei Drei(German)

Un Deux Trois(French)

Ichi Nii San(Japan)
PS:We are just gonna use 1 2 3. :grin:

 

[Shadow_Strider]

Uno, dos, tres (Spanish)

 

[Bố]

Unus, una, unum

Duo, duae, duo

Tres, Tria

(latin)

 

[moi]

uno, due, tre` (Italian)

1. n'əm
2. maʔɬ
3. yudəxʷ (Kwak'wala; note the [n] in the word for 1 is itself glottalized, not followed by a glottal stop)

echad, shtayim, shalosh (Hebrew)

But does every language have the very basic 1, 2, 3? At least one language I know of is claimed not to express numerals at all, instead using two relative terms meaning roughly 'few' and 'fewer'. Of course since this language is Piraha, we should all hold on to our wallets when such claims are made.

 

[noex1337]

1
10
11
100
101
110
111
1000
1001
1010

(I just counted to 10)

 

[Sanae]

Nung
Song
Sahm
Si
Ha

Couning in Laos :3 I'm unsure how you would spell some of those xD Just remember to put the sharp endings.. Or, something like that lol

P.S. Moving to Traveler's Tale due to being a collection of counting styles from different countries ^__^

 

[HappyNisa]

EEN TWEE DRIE

That's Dutch XD

 

[Lily]

Vier vijf zes~

(also dutch 8D)

Bir iki üç

(Turkish~ )

 

[Biomega]

Uno, dos, tres (Spanish)

Ale ale ale(pronounced al-ay)!

My exotic Language: Yak Du Sei

Persian: Ik Du Sie

Urdu: Ik Du Teen

Arabic: Wahed, Ithnan, Thalatha[

More of my exotic language: Nuh-az dah, best, best yak(we reach the twenties, right?) sleepy

 

[~Kitty~]

uno, due, tre` (Italian)

1. n'əm
2. maʔɬ
3. yudəxʷ (Kwak'wala; note the [n] in the word for 1 is itself glottalized, not followed by a glottal stop)

echad, shtayim, shalosh (Hebrew)

But does every language have the very basic 1, 2, 3? At least one language I know of is claimed not to express numerals at all, instead using two relative terms meaning roughly 'few' and 'fewer'. Of course since this language is Piraha, we should all hold on to our wallets when such claims are made.

Ale ale ale(pronounced al-ay)!

My exotic Language: Yak Du Sei

Persian: Ik Du Sie

Urdu: Ik Du Teen

Arabic: Wahed, Ithnan, Thalatha[

More of my exotic language: Nuh-az dah, best, best yak(we reach the twenties, right?) sleepy

:confused2: wow..that some weird language that I cant even read properly...

[MENTION=192]moi[/MENTION] I don't know either. I guess not all language have counting.

 

[Alyss]

Ha-na
Dhul
Set
(Korean~)

 

[VivaLaDementia]

I don't think I saw it before, but:
Aon, Dó, Trí (Irish Gaelic)

 

[Lovely.]

Một
Hai
Ba
(Vietnamese)