Numbers in various languages

Austronesian languages

Dravidian languages

Indo-European languages

Celtic languages
Breton, Cornish, Welsh, Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic (together)
Cornish, Irish, Welsh (separately)
Cumbric (Sheep-scoring numbers)
Germanic languages
Dutch
Indo-Aryan languages
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Persian, Punjabi
Romance languages
Portuguese, Spanish, Romansh
Slavic languages
Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Slovenian and Ukrainian

Sino-Tibetan languages

Chinese languages
Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Taiwanese and Shanghainese

Uralic languages

Finnic languages
Finnish, Estonian, Ingrian, Karelian, Livonian, Vepsian and Votian
Sámi languages
South, Ume, Pite, Lule, North, Skolt, Inari, Kildin and Ter Sámi

Language isolates

Japanese, Korean

International Auxiliary languages

Esperanto, Interlingua, Lingua Franca Nova, Folkspraak and Volapük

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Links

Numbers from 1 to 10 in Over 5000 Languages
http://www.zompist.com/numbers.shtml

List of numbers (1-10) in various languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers_in_various_languages

Language and numbers - details of counting systems for over 90 languages
http://www.languagesandnumbers.com

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