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In this article, we’ll teach you the Spanish numbers to 100.īefore we begin, it’s important to note that these numbers will sound a little different in Spain than they do in Latin America. Also fixed issue so that “uno” changes to “un” before “millon” and “billon” and “y” is not counted as a syllable.Learning Spanish? Well, you’re smart to make sure you know your Spanish numbers.Īfter all, numbers are essential for getting around in the world – whether you need to tell a waiter to bring three glasses for your bottle of wine or simply want to know how much a jumper costs. Fixed mistaken number of Spanish syllables in seis (1 instead of 2), siete (2 instead of 3), nueve (2 instead of 3), cientos (2 instead of 3), etc. Update: fixed small issue with Chinese number calculation. The last javascript plot is made using the open source plot.ly engine. Because of the number of points on the the first 5 plots (either 2 and 3 million), I used R (R Studio) to make static plots to embed in this post. This info was used to create a program that could calculate the number of syllables for any number between one and 1 trillion in Javascript. I will also be creating the count to one million/billion/trillion calculators for the two additional languages (Spanish and Chinese) as well in the coming days.ĭata sources and tools: Lots of web searches to better understand the numbering systems for Chinese and Spanish. You can double click on a language in the legend to isolate the distribution for that language or single click to remove that language.
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English has a moderately high peak at 14, while Spanish has a broader peak. As stated before, nearly half the numbers in Chinese in this range have exactly 11 syllables, whereas the distributions for English and Spanish are shifted towards higher syllable counts and show a broader distributions of syllables. It shows a histogram of the syllables in the numbers up to one million in different languages. This last graph is a bit more interactive (thankfully) since I’m not plotting 1 million points (or more). But Chinese is a very syllable-efficient language and you’ll have spoken about 20% fewer syllables than English in counting to one million. We can see that if you make it to one million in Spanish, will have spoken about 10% more syllables that you would have in English. This graph compares Spanish and Chinese to English by dividing the cumulative number of syllables between one and a number in Spanish or Chinese to the same value in English. Also, I had assumed that the “y” between numbers wass pronounced separately. I had mistakenly said that “siete, nueve, cientos” and other numbers have 3 syllables, whereas they only have 2. I’ve been learning lots about Spanish syllables and diphthongs. The total number of syllables needed to count to one million in English is 13,198,003 in Spanish it is 14,486,000 1 corrected from my earlier calculation of 18.5 million. Chinese, on the other hand, is consistently lower. Spanish is consistently higher than the other languages in number of syllables, though only slightly more syllables than English. This graph shows the comparison of the cumulative average number of syllables between one to one million. As a result, the maximum number of syllables is only 11! The first number with 11 syllables is 211111 ( 二十一万一千一百一十一 èr shí yī wàn yī qiān yī bǎi yī shí yī ) and as you’ll see in later plots, almost half of the Chinese numbers between one and one million have 11 syllables. You just put them together to make larger and larger numbers. It exhibits much more uniformity than the other two languages (mainly because all of the component number words have 1 syllable, i.e. Click here to go to the Spanish counting app. However, it still has a slightly higher average number of syllables when counting to one million. (This assumes that you don’t pronounce the “y”, apparently it merges with the previous vowel). 444,441 (cuatrocientos cuarenta y cuatro mil cuatrocientos cuarenta y uno) is the first of many numbers with that many syllables. It’s maximum is lower than English, the maximum is 19 syllables.