whealien.blogg.se - Symbols for numbers in different languages

People can get very excited about what's a language vs. Here's a couple examples, one from Asia, one from Africa:

Their ears may not be attuned to the language or there may be dialectal variation, or even sound change. For unwritten languages, different linguists' word lists may be strikingly different. But only a minority of languages are standardized in this way.

Hundreds of millions of English speakers agree that the numbers are one, two, three, etc.

The standard orthography or standard dialect may have changed since my source on a language was published.

Shared numbers do not necessarily indicate genetic relationship.

Pronunciation, making comparisons difficult.

Both native spelling and romanizations may obscure actual.

Special thanks to the Claudia Griffith and the staff of the SIL Library in Duncanville, Texas, whose wonderful hospitality made a week of research in the summer of 2004 both pleasant and productive. Louis and Pavel Petrov of Kaliningrad, who sent me their enormous, worldwide collection of numbers. Chan of Hong Kong, who sent me hisĮntire Austronesian database and Carl Masthay of St.

I dearly appreciate everyone who's sent me numbers but I want to particularly salute those whose kindness and hard work have been extraordinary: Jarel Deaton of Ohio, who is single-handedly responsible for more than a quarter of the numbers seen here Eugene S.L. The Sources Page gives the sources for each language (and also lists languages I don't have, and connects the languages to other wide-scale classifications: Ruhlen, Voegelin & Voegelin, Campbell, and the Ethnologue). How languages are classified, from the sci.lang faq.Language Information: notes on linguistic families, and a taste of ethnomathematics.Jennifer Runner's page on common expressions in many languages.Rick Schellen's page of the numbers in over 400 Indo-European dialects.The numbers in various writing systems, plus field notes on distinguishing various types of writing systems.Million-speaker languages: the world's major languages.Proto-languages only: perfect for the long-range comparison fan.Or click on the map to move to the languages for that area. This page with links to smaller non-Unicode files If your browser can't handle either of these things, click below. The links on this page are to a single 1.1-megabyte file with all the numbers, displayed using Unicode. Numbers from 1 to 10 in Over 5000 Languages (One file) Compiled by the irrepressible Mark Rosenfelder.