From 61 to 99 the French method of counting is wholly vigesimal, except for the presence of the one word _soixante_.

In old French this element was still more pronounced.
_Soixante_ had not yet appeared; and 60 and 70 were _treis vinz_, 3-20, and _treis vinz et dis_, 3-20 and 10 respectively.

Also, 120 was _six vinz_, 6-20, 140 was _sept-vinz_, etc.[334] How far this method ever extended in the French language proper, it is, perhaps, impossible to say; but from the name of an almshouse, _les quinze-vingts_,[335] which formerly existed in Paris, and was designed as a home for 300 blind persons, and from the _pembzek-ueguent_, 15-20, of the Breton, which still survives, we may infer that it was far enough to make it the current system of common life.
Europe yields one other example of vigesimal counting, in the number system of the Basques.

Like most of the Celtic scales, the Basque seems to become decimal above 100.

It does not appear to be related to any other European system, but to be quite isolated philologically.