The Greek number words here are the result of translating Greek letters to approximate English letters based on phonetics (the way the Greek letters are pronounced ). Some of these letters are analogous to English letters, but others have no counterpart. Please note that Greek does not use the standard English alphabet, but rather the Greek alphabet which only contains 24 letters. There is also a bonus language not shown on this chart, but there is a link that will take you to it after the chart. ![]() The following table goes over the important word components used to form number words in English, but also in 13 additional languages, including Latin, Greek, Japanese, Hebrew, Spanish, French, German, and many more! In fact, in most foreign language classes, the "number words" are some of the first things you learn. So intuitive and uniform is the idea of numbers, that it is easy to learn and understand them even when spoken in another language. If there is a universal human language, it's the language of numbers. ![]() Counting to a thousand in 14 different languages
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