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[livejournal.com profile] littledevi's post about etymologies reminded me of the extreme coolness of this collection of numbers from 1 to 10 in over 4500 languages.

It's remarkable how instantly recognizable the reconstructed proto-Indo-European terms are as "numbers from 1 to 10." The same is true of even many of the Indian and Iranian languages in the family. But go outside the Indo-European family and suddenly an English speaker is very much lost.
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