Numbers in various languages

The following is a table of the numbers 0 through 10 in a sample of the languages and writings of the world.

Language	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Indo-European languages	----
Germanic languages	----
English	zero	one	two	three	four	five	six	seven	eight	nine	ten
Danish	nul	én	to	tre	fire	fem	seks	syv	otte	ni	ti
Dutch	nul	een	twee	drie	vier	vijf	zes	zeven	acht	negen	tien
Frisian	nol	ien	twa	trije	fjouwer	fiif	ses	san	acht	njoggen	tsien
German (listen)	null	eins	zwei	drei	vier	fünf	sechs	sieben	acht	neun	zehn
Icelandic	núll	einn	tveir	þrír	fjórir	fimm	sex	sjö	átta	níu	tíu
Swedish	noll	en (ett)	två	tre	fyra	fem	sex	sju	åtta	nio	tio
Italic and Romance languages	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Latin		unus	duo	tres	quattuor	quinque	sex	septem	octo	novem	decem
Catalan	zero	un	dos	tres	quatre	cinc	sis	set	vuit	nou	deu
French	zéro	un	deux	trois	quatre	cinq	six	sept	huit	neuf	dix
Italian	zero	uno	due	tre	quattro	cinque	sei	sette	otto	nove	dieci
Portuguese	zero	um	dois	três	quatro	cinco	seis	sete	oito	nove	dez
Romanian	zero	unu	doi	trei	patru	cinci	şase	şapte	opt	nouã	zece
Spanish	cero	uno	dos	tres	cuatro	cinco	seis	siete	ocho	nueve	diez
Wallon	zérô	onk / one	deus	troes	cwate	cénk	shîjh	set	ût	noûv	dîjh
Greek	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Greek	μηδέν mithen	ένα ena	δύο dio	τρία tria	τέσσερα tessera	πέντε pente	έξι exi	επτά / εφτά epta / efta	οκτώ / οχτώ okto / okhto	εννέα ennea	δέκα deka
Illyrian languages	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Albanian (listen)	zero	një	dy	tre	katër	pesë	gjashtë	shtatë	tetë	nëntë	dhjetë
Baltic languages	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Lithuanian		vienas	du	trys	keturi	penki	šeši	septyni	aštuoni	devyni	dešimt
Slavic languages	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Bulgarian	нула (nula)	едно (edno)	две (dve)	три (tri)	четири (chetiri)	пет (pet)	шест (shest)	седем (sedem)	осем (osem)	девет (devet)	десет (deset)
Czech	nula	jeden	dva	tři	čtyři	pět	šest	sedm	osm	devět	deset
Macedonian	--	eden еден	dva два	tri три	četiri четири	pet пет	šest шест	sedum седум	osum осум	devet девет	deset десет
Polish	zero	jeden	dwa	trzy	cztery	pięć	sześć	siedem	osiem	dziewięć	dziesięć
Russian	ноль nol'	один odin	два dva	три tri	четыре chetyrye	пять pyat'	шесть shest'	семь syem'	восемь vosyem'	девять dyevyat'	десять dyesyat'
Serbo-Croat	nula нула	jedan један	dva два	tri три	četiri четири	pet пет	šest шест	sedam седам	osam осам	devet девет	deset десет
Slovak	nula	jeden	dva	tri	štyri	päť	šesť	sedem	osem	deväť	desať
Slovene	nič	ena	dva	tri	štiri	pet	šest	sedem	osem	devet	deset
Indic languages	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Sanskrit		eka-	dau-	traya-	cetura-	pancha-	sas	sapta-	astau-	naua-	dasa-
Hindi ¹	sunya / sifar	ek	do	tin	tchar (char)	panch	tché (chhah)	sat	at (ath)	no (nau)	das
Persian		yek	do	se	chahâr	panj	shesh	haft	hasht	noh	dah
Romany		jekh	duj	trin	shtar	pandzh	shov	efta	oxto	inja	desh
Celtic languages	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Breton	zero	unan	daou (m) diw (f)	tri teir	pewar peder	pemp	c'hwec'h	seizh	eizh	naw	deg
Welsh	dim	un	dau	tri	pedwar	pump	chwech	saith	wyth	naw	deg
Irish		aon	dhá	trí	cheithre	chúig	sé	seacht	ocht	naoi	deich
Lincolnshire Score		yan	tan	tethera	pethera	pimp	sethera	lethera	hovera	covera	dik
Afro-Asiatic languages	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Arabic ²	٠ sifer صِفْر	١ wâhid واحِد	٢ ithnayn إِثنان	٣ thalâtha ثَلاثة	٤ arba`a أرْبَعَة	٥ khamsa خَمْسة	٦ sitta سِتَّة	٧ sab`a سَبْعَة	٨ thamâniya ثَمانِة	٩ tis`a تِسْعة	١٠ `ashara عَشَرة
Maltese	xejn	wieħed	tnejn	tlieta	erbgħa	ħamsa	sitta	sebgħa	tmienja	disgħa	għaxra
Hebrew	אפס	אחת אחד	שתיים שניים	שלוש שלושה	ארבע ארבעה	חמש חמישה	שש שישה	שבע שבעה	שמונה שמונה	תשע תשעה	עשר עשרה
Dravidian languages	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Malayalam		onnu	rantu	mûnnu	nâlu	añju	âru	êru	ettu	onpatu	pattu
Tamil		onru	irantu	mûnru	nânku	aintu	âru	êlu	ettu	onpatu	pattu
Telugu		okati	rendu	mûdu	nâlugu	aidu	âru	êdu	enimidi	tommidi	padi
Tibeto-Burman languages	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Burmese		tac	hnac	suMh	leh	ngah	krok	khu hnac	rhac	kuih	chay
Cantonese ³	lihng 零	yat 一	yih/lehuhng 二/两	saahm 三	seih 四	ng 五	luhk 六	chat 七	baaht 八	gauh 九	sahp 十
Mandarin ³	líng 零	yī 一	èr/liǎng 二/两	sān 三	sì 四	wǔ 五	liù 六	qī 七	bā 八	jiǔ 九	shí 十
Tibetan	klad kor	gcig	gnyis	gsum	bzhi	lnga	drug	bdun	brgyad	dgu	bcu
Ural-Altaic languages	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Estonian	null	üks	kaks	kolm	neli	viis	kuus	seitse	kaheksa	üheksa	kümme
Finnish	nolla	yksi	kaksi	kolme	neljä	viisi	kuusi	seitsemän	kahdeksan	yhdeksän	kymmenen
Hungarian	nulla	egy	kettő	három	négy	öt	hat	hét	nyolc	kilenc	tíz
Sami		okta	guokte	golbma	njeallje	vihtta	guhtta	cieza	gavcci	ovcci	logi
Mongolian		negen	xoyor	gurav	duruv	tavan	zurgaan	doloon	naiman	ieson	arvan
Turkish		bir	iki	üg	dört	bes	alti	yedi	sekiz	dokuz	on
Austronesian languages	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Bisaya		usa	duha	tulo	upat	lima	unom	pito	walo	siyam	napulo
Indonesian		satu	dua	tiga	empat	lima	enam	tujuh	delapan	sembilan	sepuluh
Tagalog		isa	dalawa	tatlo	apat	lima	anim	pito	walo	siyam	sampu
Maori		tahi	rua	toru	whâ	rima	ono	whitu	waru	iwa	tekau
Samoan		tasi	lua	tolu	fa	lima	ono	fitu	valu	iva	sefulu
Native American languages	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Guarani		peteï	moköi	mbohapy	irundy	(as in Spanish)
Mayan		hun	ca	ox	can	ho	uac	uuc	uaxac	bolon	lahun
Mapuche		kiñe	epu	küla	meli	kechu	kayu	relqe	pura	ailla	mari
Navajo		láá'ii	naaki	táá	díí`	`ashdla`	hastáá	tsots`id	tseebíí	náhást`éí	neezná
Quechua		huk	iskay	kimsa	tawa	pichqa	soqta	qanchis	pusaq	isqon	chunka
Language isolates	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Korean	yeong 영	hana 하나 il 일	dul 둘 i 이	set 셋 sam 삼	net 넷 sa 사	daseot 다섯 o 오	yeoseot 여섯 yuk 육	ilgop 일곱 chil 칠	yeodeol 여덟 pal 팔	ahop 아홉 gu 구	yeol 열 sip 십
Japanese ⁴	〇 zero / rei ゼロ / れい	一 hitotsu / ichi いち	二 futatsu / ni に	三 mittsu / san さん	四 yottsu / shi し / よん	五 itsutsu / go ご	六 muttsu / roku ろく	七 nanatsu / shichi しち / なな	八 yattsu / hachi はち	九 kokonotsu / ku きゅう	十 tô / jû じゅう
Basque		bat	bi	hiru	lau	bost	sei	zazpi	zortzi	bederatzi	hamar
Etruscan		thu	zal	ci	huth	mak	sa	semph	cezp	nurph	zal(ch)
Constructed languages	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Brithenig	sero / rhen	yn	dew	trui	cathr	cinc	sei	seth	oeth	noe	deg
Esperanto	nulo	unu	du	tri	kvar	kvin	ses	sep	ok	naŭ	dek
Klingon	pagh	wa'	cha'	wej	loS	vagh	jav	Soch	chorgh	Hut	wa'maH
Lojban	no	pa	re	ci	vo	mu	xa	ze	bi	so	pano
Nuirn	ingen	haon	tuâ	þrí	fiòra	féam	stvac	siù	ácht	naoi	tí
Quenya	úqua	minë	atta	neldë	canta	lempë	enquë	otso	tolto	nertë	cainen
Slovio	nul	din	dva	tri	cxtir	piat	sxes	siem	vos	dev	des
Volapük	nul	bal	tel	kil	fol	lul	mäl	vel	jöl	zül	bals
Wenedyk	zero	un	dwu	trzej	kwastru	cząc	szecz	siecę	ostu	nów	dziecz

¹The forms between brackets are transcriptions different from the Hindi.

²Although English names its numerals Arabic numerals, they came to Europe through India, originally from the Islamic civilization. Arab countries use other symbols for numerals, although with the same decimal structure. In the table, these figures appear in the top row of the text. For numbers with several digits, one writes in increasing powers of ten (units first, then tens, and so on). As in the west, the units are on the right and the greater powers of ten are on the left, as shown for the Arabic ten in the table. In the transliteration, th must be read about like English th, although closer to the S than Z or V . kh is a guttural R, as in Khaled, similar to the German CH of Bach (IPA χ, ).

³There are two different characters which mean "2"

èr (二) is used for numbers ("the year 2000")
liăng (两) is used to describe ("I have two fruits")

⁴ the Japanese usually use the Arabic numerals, but still use Chinese characters (kanji) in calligraphy or when written in columns. The word shi (死) means "death", in some cases yon replaces shi (4) and nana replaces shichi (7).

Numbers in various languages

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