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by dingo_bat
3008 days ago
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> Hindi and Marathi both have dedicated names for the tens (11, 12, 13, ...) Same deal with English. > and after that numbers are named in the reverse order of their digits. E.g. 45 will be five - forty. Which is similar in complexity to English, just the order of speaking is reversed. > _except_ the word for five will be different from the word for five in, say, 75. Similarly, the word for "fifty" in the fifties is different for many of them. Now I realize what you're saying. It seems that I have memorized every number. Because I never thought of this. |
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> Which is similar in complexity to English, just the order of speaking is reversed.
Yes, I was mentioning these to paint an accurate picture, not to contrast with English :)
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As a native Marathi / nonnative Hindi speaker, I can tell you that the Hindi numbers are pretty hard to get, and took me forever to get used to, even though the variations are almost the same as the ones Marathi has.
(However if you asked me about Marathi I'd have the exact same response as you, "what complexity? oh wait I see I've memorized everything oops")