From this point onward all our numerals except "hundred" and "thousand" are compounds and combinations of the names of smaller numbers.

The words we employ to designate the higher orders of units, as million, billion, trillion, etc., are appropriated bodily from the Italian; and the native words _pair_, _tale_, _brace_, _dozen_, _gross_, and _score_, can hardly be classed as numerals in the strict sense of the word.

German possesses exactly the same number of native words in its numeral scale as English; and the same may be said of the Teutonic languages generally, as well as of the Celtic, the Latin, the Slavonic, and the Basque.

This is, in fact, the universal method observed in the formation of any numeral scale, though the actual number of simple words may vary.

The Chiquito language has but one numeral of any kind whatever; English contains twelve simple terms; Sanskrit has twenty-seven, while Japanese possesses twenty-four, and the Chinese a number almost equally great.