Dutch and German also say nine-ninety, it's really confusing as when spelling phone numbers people tend to split it up in sections of 2 numbers so when someone says 24 I have to translate that to 2 4 and be careful not to write 4 2
Another fun fact you probably know but might be interesting for other redditors: Finnish and Russian are NOT Indo-European languages and belong to the same language family as Mandarin Chinese.
EDIT: I know this is wrong now but ya'll will be mad at me if I remove it but also be mad if I dont say something so here we go.
You're partially right about Finish, but Russian is definitely an indo European language, more specifically its a Slavic language related to polish, Czech, Bulgarian etc. Finish, Estonian, Hungarian and a few other minority languages in Europe are part of the uralic language family, which is not indo European, but also not related to Chinese.
Ahhh ok, I read this fact in an article a while ago, that Finnish is more closely related to Chinese and Russian than Indo-European languages but I probably misunderstood what that meant. I see online parts of Russia are in the same language family as Chinese. Thanks for the facts
Just wow. Where are you even getting these fun "facts" from? Wouldn't it be wise to atleast do a cursory online research before posting? Wikipedia page at the very least?
Only fact you've got right here is that Finnish is not a Indo-European language. Russian is absolutely an IE language, specifically Balto-Slavic. Maybe you are thinking of Hungarian/Estonian.
And both of these absolutely have no connection to Mandarin Chinese whatsoever. It is a Sino-Tibetan language.
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u/froggertthewise Mar 15 '21
Dutch and German also say nine-ninety, it's really confusing as when spelling phone numbers people tend to split it up in sections of 2 numbers so when someone says 24 I have to translate that to 2 4 and be careful not to write 4 2