Hi, so does Channel. Welcome to the channel. This is Benjamin. And today we're looking at the Breton language and the Welsh language, comparing numbers in these two languages. I just wanted to give you an example to show you how similar and close these languages are. It's fascinating. These two British languages, the British branch of the Celtic language family. That's what we're talking about today. A quick disclaimer. To ensure a cumbrae should paddle fancy, but I don't speak Breton. And in fact, when I listen to it or when I've heard it, my brain is pulling in opposite directions. I don't know which part to listen to. Maybe I just need more exposure to it. But I'm using and leaning on heavily my Welsh hair to compare these two. And so I'm not going to pronounce Poison egg. Poison egg. Perfectly. But we'll give it a go. So let's begin with the numbers. One in Welsh. In. That used pronounced quite differently to both Cornish and Breton by the way. So in Breton. Una. Una. I'm guessing it's under heavy influence of French, so that's how I'm going about it. Two in Welsh. Die. And in Breton. Do. Three. Trey in Welsh. And. Trey in Breton. That's the same. Nice. Four. Petwar in Welsh and Pevere in Breton. Now I just want to highlight from these two languages in these three numbers. Two, three and four. Have a feminine form. So look at this. In Welsh. Do we? Is feminine two? Tire is feminine three. And peddair is feminine four. And in Breton. They have these. Die. Tire. Peddair. So that's fascinating that they have those. It shows how closely related they are. Moving on number five. Pimp in Welsh and Pimp. In Breton. These are so similar. And number six is essentially the same word in both languages, but you'll notice that Breton has a different way of writing. Qué. Qué. Seven. In Welsh, Scyth and in Breton, Sace. That seems almost Spanish to me. I hope I didn't pronounce that too badly. Moving on. In Welsh it's weath. And in Breton, S. You'll notice that the T-h in Welsh is becoming S. And that's from what I've seen. It's consistent across the language, really. Number nine. Now in Welsh and in Breton, now essentially the same thing. In Welsh, number ten. Deg and in Breton, Deg. So you see that hardening at the end which happens in Breton. This happens in Cornish as well. But Welsh has definitely softened most of its endings compared with the other two British languages. Now let's move on to the teens where we see some divergence really begin. Eleven and Welsh is inart of egg. Inart of egg. Ineg. So that's quite different. But you do get this in Welsh. Ineg. Every now and then. And I just want to point out that a lot of languages have this eleven as being a separate word itself. But a lot of them go with this ten one bit. So for the languages that I'm taking on or looking at following through in my lifetime, they kind of go into these two categories. So for example, French, Netherlands, Deutsche. These all have this element where they have their own word for eleven. Bachulmana, Magyarnal, Hungarian, Evere, Teibur. They all do this ten one. Right? Like Welsh. So it's quite an even divergence. For over a number twelve, Day they can Welsh. Dowsik. In Breton. Very similar. But thirteen, you get this divergence again while she's going and continuing down this arveg on ten. Triarveg. But Breton. Tresik. And it carries on through the teens like this. But fifteen is unusual in Welsh. It's so specific. It's Pymtheg. And you see the corresponding one in Breton is Pymtheg. Again, that TH becomes a Z sound. And there's not much difference in the others going until eighteen is very strange in both languages. In Welsh, Day now. Literally two nines, though you get in-deg with as well. But why would you use that when you have something as cool as Day now? And you get trichwach. In Breton, literally three sixes. Now, from what I understand, there's an older RTA version in Breton that is two nines as well. So that's interesting that both Welsh and Breton have that in some degree. But I wonder what made it so specific about eighteen that made it different. Nineteen. In Welsh there are two different counting systems essentially. One that's more vegetable or twenty is based. And one that's basically taken from English. And in Breton, they do have that twenty's bit. But we get Pymtheg, literally four on fifteen in Welsh. Explicitly when we're talking about like the nineteenth century. Pymtheg. And in more formal context. And in Breton, you get noun-tech. Twenty in both languages is quite similar. Egan in Welsh. Oogent in Breton. I don't know if you pronounce that tea, but I'm sort of softly doing it. Sorry if that's wrong. And then going down, you get this R bit in both to an extent, which means on twenty. One on twenty to on twenty. So long. When you get higher up into the twenty four to fifty's, it gets a bit interesting because you really see the twenty's based counting system firmly taking over in Breton. Where it doesn't in Welsh. And Welsh we have two still competing in a way. Forty in Breton, dogent. Dogent. This is very similar to dagine in Welsh, which are two twenty's. Now I prefer to use dagine myself in Welsh, but most people generally now use Pymtheg. You still get it in phrases in Welsh and it's there. But the English way of counting has taken over for every purpose. In fifty they both say half hundred. In Welsh I'm a count. In Breton hunter count, hunter count, 80. In Welsh again you have this with dag, but you also have pedwari gone. You have both. In Breton it seems you have the four twenty like in French. Pévarica. And Welsh and Breton essentially share the name for one hundred. Count. And depending on how you pronounce it in Breton, count or count. And three hundred. This one is really peculiar because in our earliest poetry in Welsh, I mean the earliest poetry. We have trichant, 300. Like 300 men going into battle. It doesn't seem a coincidence that Breton has kept this as well. Trichant, that mutation is the same. And the words are essentially the same. Nine hundred. However, the mutation is different. In this case, now count and Welsh does not change. The C changes not at all. But in Breton, now count, now count. There's that chah. And the word for one thousand is the same in both languages. Meal. Some of you had asked me to compare more British Celtic languages with each other. And so I hope that helps a bit. I don't speak any other British Celtic language than Welsh. But looking at them, I can get what they're saying, certainly when reading it and writing. Spoken however, Breton is a bit further away, simply because it's under influence of French rather than English. But they're definitely very close. And these numbers clearly show that. Question of the day. Do any languages that you speak have a different way of counting? And what is it? Here's a big thank you to my Patreons. And please, if you want to leave a like or super like, feel free to, it really helps the channel and the algorithm. And we'll see you in the next episode. Thank you.