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
Dutch	nul	een	twee	drie	vier	vijf	zes	zeven	acht	negen	tien
German	null	eins	zwei	drei	vier	fünf	sechs	sieben	acht	neun	zehn
Swedish	noll	en (ett)	två	tre	fyra	fem	sex	sju	åtta	nio	tio
Italic and Romance languages	----
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	----
Greek		oinos	dyo	treis	tettares	pente	hex	hepta	okto	ennea	deka
Illyrian languages	----
Albanian	zero	një	dy	tre	katër	pesë	gjashtë	shtatë	tetë	nëntë	dhjetë
Baltic languages	----
Lithuanian		vienas	du	trys	keturi	penki	šeši	septyni	aštuoni	devyni	dešimt
Slavic languages	----
Czech	nula	jeden	dva	tři	čtyři	pět	šest	sedm	osm	devět	deset
Polish	zero	jeden	dwa	trzy	cztery	pięć	sześć	siedem	osiem	dziewięć	dziesięć
Russian	nol' ноль	odin один	dva два	tri три	chetyrye четыре	pyat' пять	shest' шесть	syem' семь	vosyem' восемь	dyevyat' девять	dyesyat' десять
Slovak	nula	jeden	dva	tri	štyri	päť	šesť	sedem	osem	deväť	desať
Indic languages	----
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	chahar	panj	shesh	haft	hasht	noh	dah
Romany		jekh	duj	trin	shtar	pandzh	shov	efta	oxto	inja	desh
Celtic languages	----
Breton	mann	unan	daou	tri	pevar	pemp	c'hwec'h	seiz	eiz	nao	dek
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	----
Arabic 2	٠ sifer صِفْر	١ ouahid واحِد	٢ ithnan إِثنان	٣ thalatha ثَلاثة	٤ arbaha أرْبَعَة	٥ khamsa خَمْسة	٦ sitta سِتَّة	٧ sabhaa سَبْعَة	٨ thamania ثَمانِة	٩ tis'ha تِسْعة	١٠ hachra عَشَرة
Tibeto-Burman languages	-----
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/liăng 二/两	sān 三	sì 四	wŭ 五	liù 六	qī 七	bā 八	jiŭ 九	shí 十
Tibetan	klad kor	gcig	gnyis	gsum	bzhi	lnga	drug	bdun	brgyad	dgu	bcu
Ural-Altaic languages	----
Finnish	nolla	yksi	kaksi	kolme	neljä	viisi	kuusi	seitsemän	kahdeksan	yhdeksän	kymmenen
Hungarian	nulla	egy	kettő	három	négy	öt	hat	hét	nyolc	kilenc	tíz
Turkish		bir	iki	üg	dört	bes	alti	yedi	sekiz	dokuz	on
Austronesian languages	----
Bisaya		usa	duha	tulo	upat	lima	unom	pito	walo	siyam	napulo
Indonesian		satu	dua	tiga	empat	lima	enam	tujuh	delapan	sembilam	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	----
Guarani		peteï	moköi	mbohapy	irundy	(as in Spanish)
Mayan		hun	ca	ox	can	ho	uac	uuc	uaxac	bolon	lahun
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	----
Japanese 4	〇 zero / rei ゼロ / れい	一 ichi いち	二 ni に	三 san さん	四 shi / yon し / よん	五 go ご	六 roku ろく	七 shichi / nana しち / なな	八 hachi はち	九 kyû きゅう	十 jû じゅう
Korean		il 일	i 이	sam 삼	sa 사	o 오	yuk 육	chil 칠	phal 팔	gu 구	sip 십
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	----
Esperanto	nulo	unu	du	tri	kvar	kvin	ses	sep	ok	naŭ	dek

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

²Although English names our numerals Arabic numerals, they came to us 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).

See also

• Common phrases in different languages