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.
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