I got into an argument over this! I remember learning this somewhere in school but I can't for the life of me remember which language it was that counts like that.
2006-07-12 22:26:39 · 4 answers · asked by the_illeist 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Oh thanks a ton! Latin must have been what I was thinking of then. I took Latin, Spanish, and French throughout highschool--unfortnately the three have blurred together over time.
2006-07-12 22:49:55 · update #1
Latin, which is the ancestress of French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and a few other minor languages, uses:
duodeviginti for 18, which means 2 from 20 and
undeviginti for 19, meaning 1 from 20
2006-07-12 22:36:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 1⤋
Oh darn, I was hoping to be the only one to get this right! Not many people do Latin at school anymore!
I live in Spain, and it's curious, because although Spanish descended from Latin, spanish numbers literally translated are:
18: Dieciocho - which means ten and eight, 21: veintiuno - which means twenty and one, and so on..
Wierd...
2006-07-12 23:23:29 · answer #2 · answered by Krissyinthesun 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, french. but not 18,
they say 4 twenties to say 80...
strange, eh??
2006-07-12 22:31:06 · answer #3 · answered by ingrid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, Roman Numerals do for nineteen, if that's what you mean, but that's not how they spoke those words.
2006-07-12 22:30:14 · answer #4 · answered by XYZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋