I’ve always noticed that numbers seemed to be the same for most or all languages but I’ve never been told why or how it came to be this way. So why are languages so different but have the same symbols for numbers
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Numerals represent defined concepts shared by different cultures, and Arabic numerals (1,2,3,…) were used in trade where those concepts were easily shared by writing. The interesting part is that different languages have different words for them.
Languages had spread by speech long before writing, and even after writing different cultures pronounced things differently and diverged. That made languages become different from each other and why some are so different from others.
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