Field notes are provided for recognizing each type in the wild.Ĭhinese characters each represent a single syllable, and in the vast majority of cases a single morpheme. The samples are arranged by type of writing system, rather than by language family, as in the main list. In some cases, like Japanese, it would be rather strange to write out the numbers this way- the Japanese would use the Chinese or Western symbols, instead. Note that these are the names of the numbers, exactly as they are represented in the numbers list (like "one, two, three"), and not symbols for numbers (like 1, 2, 3). The Numbers in Various Writing Systems The Numbers in Various Writing SystemsĪs a supplement to my list of the numbers from 1 to 10 in over a thousand languages, here are the numbers written in a few native writing systems, plus ASL.
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