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English has “twenty-one”, but no “onety-one”.
But you have teens? Thirteen, fourteen etc? It’s just that a dozen was kind of special, so eleven and twelve are kind of irregular, but afterwards it’s just ordinary base 10, isn’t it?
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Well, English does. Not my native language.
Yes, my point exactly. No “onety-one”, because “eleven”.
Same with other languages.
But “thirteen”, “fourteen” etc, you think are as regular as “twenty one”, “thirty three” “forty five”?
It is base-10 all the way through, but I’m just pointing out that probably at one point in history, even other languages, for some reason, counted 1-20 differently than 20+ numbers and they sort of stuck.