Again, there is no reading direction implied in the number name. The logic seems to be to view the decades and then say how far into which decade we are. In Finnish, eighteen is called kah-deksan-toista "two (from) ten (in the) second (ten)". In Breton, the number eighteen has the name tri-ouch "three (times) six" – I cannot discern any direction in this numeral. Many numerals existing today were created long before reading was practised, so if there is any direction in a language at all, German does not "read" "backwards", it speaks "backwards".īut then, very likely numerals are not named with regard to direction at all, but for the logic behind counting. Spoken language was in existence before written language. The question, why German numbers are "backwards" is naive in many ways.
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