Be happy it's only backwards from 10 to 99. Have you checked Malagasy? We read the numbers totally backwards although we've switched to the Latin alphabet like

Be happy it's only backwards from 10 to 99. Have you checked Malagasy? We read the numbers totally backwards although we've switched to the Latin alphabet like 200 years ago... It's sometimes so inconvenient for everyday life, especially for large amounts, that we end up counting in _French_ instead. For numbers 11 to 99, we also use casual abbreviations like (I translated) "one with two" for 21; or "seven with three" for 37, but reading large numbers from 10,000 upwards (mostly Malagasy currency) with the left-to-right writing system is tedious.