| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| L1 |
en |
twene |
thria |
fiuwar |
fif |
| L2 |
jedyn | dwaj | tři | štyri | pjeć |
| L3 | i | liang | san | ssu | wu |
| L4 |
eka | dvau | trayas | catur | pañca |
| L5 | ichi | ni | san | shi | go |
| L6 | echad | shnayim | shlosha | arba?a | chamishasha |
| L7 | mot | hai | ba | bon | nam |
| L8 |
ün | duos | trais | quatter | tschinch |
| L9 | hana | tul | set | net | tasŏt |
| L10 |
yaw | daw | dree | tsaloor | pindze |
| L11 |
uno | dos | tres |
cuatro |
cinco |
| L12 | nigen | khoyar | ghorban | durben | tabon |
The languages in bold type, i.e. the languages 1, 2, 4, 8, 10 and 11 are related, They all belong to the Indo-European language family.
Most people identify at least some of these languages as belonging together on this very small basis. This, of course, is not sufficient to prove that these languages are related, but it shows that basic numbers are an excellent field of study for this kind of question.
Just in case you are interested, these are the languages involved in the exercise:
L1 Old English
L2 Czech
L3 Mandarin Chinese
L4 Sanskrit
L5 Japanese
L6 Hebrew
L7 Vietnamese
L8 Rhaeto-Romanic
L9 Korean
L10 Albanian
L11 Spanish
L12 Mongolian