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Breton, Cornish, and Manx, like French, are still all base 20. Recently (a few decades ago) the other Celtic languages: Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic, switched to base 10.

Numbers in Danish are a bit odd.




Fun fact: the unusual way of saying eighty in French ("four twenties") actually came about through the local contact with Celtic languages! I'm linguistic terms this is called "substratum influence"




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