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I’ve always found it interesting from taking Latin …

Comment posted on Oneteen, twoteen by mramax

I’ve always found it interesting from taking Latin in high school that counting in Latin has something similar to eleven and twelve, but on the other end. Eleven through seventeen are all along the same format, but eighteen and nineteen are a different format. They are in the format of two before twenty and one before twenty. Is there any reason for this opposite similarity? Are there other languages that done the same or similar things in that range of numbers?

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