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by speedgoose 1667 days ago
The French language has such words, but Frenchmen don't use them. For example they prefer to say the old fashioned "quatre-vingt-dix" (4 - 20 - 10) instead of the perfectly fine "nonante" that French speakers in Belgium use.
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It's the same in Switzerland, which makes an order of magnitude more sense IMO:

Soixante

Septante

Huitante

Nonante

Cent