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Not all languages use the same set of numbers for all objects, e.g., Japanese has different numbers to use with people versus objects (like Irish). They also have something called quantifiers that are used with numbers, sort of like how we say in English, two pieces of paper. In Japanese, you say something like five round-things-quantifier balls, two human-quantifier people, etc. Ain't language grand?
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