> And it's not just German either. If you take the word 175 for example: > Croatian: sto sedamdeset pet (one hundred seventy five) > Serbian: same as Croatian

> And it's not just German either. If you take the word 175 for example: > Croatian: sto sedamdeset pet (one hundred seventy five) > Serbian: same as Croatian but in cirilic As a German speaker with Ex-Yugoslavian roots, I'd like to point out that you have a mistake in your list. In Serbo-Croatian (former official language of Yugoslavia) 175 (sto sedamdeset pet) is actually the order in which the number is written. Only between 10 and 20 the pronounciation is somewhat the other way around. But like the French colleague in this thread it could easily be argued that the numbers between 1 and 20 have their own words because it's not tri-deset but trinest for 13. This could be because e.g. tri-deset is actually used for 30, which sounds like three times ten. It seems Slovenian counting is more similar to German, while Serbo-Croatian is more similar to English. Serbo-Croatian counting examples: 1 - jedan 2 - dva 3 - tri 4 - četiri 5 - pet 6 - šest 7 - sedam 8 - osam 9 - devet 10 - deset 11 - jedanest 12 - dvanest 13 - trinest 14 - četrnest 15 - petnest 16 - šesnest 17 - sedamnest 18 - osamnest 19 - devetnest 20 - dvadeset 21 - dvadeset jedan 32 - trideset dva 43 - četrdeset tri 54 - pedeset četiri 65 - šesdeset pet 76 - sedamdeset šest 87 - osamdeset sedam 98 - devedeset osam 100 - sto 101 - sto jedan 111 - sto jedanest 121 - sto dvadeset jedan 212 - dvesto dvanest 222 - dvesto dvadeset dva ...