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most schools in urban india and a large number of the rest are 'english-medium'.. which means i learnt math in math class (in english) and learnt to count in hindi in hindi class.. but never had to solve a math problem in hindi

i am currently learning japanese and can agree about the numbers being syllablically small.. but this language has it own complexities - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_counters which require a speaker to think a lot as well

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I agree with the comment above. But there is a large rural population in India that 'thinks numbers' in the native language.

May be the article is true only for numbers in the CJK (Chinese-Japense-Korean) languages.

Atleast in the 3 Indian languages I know, numbers are bad in all of them - as bad as it is in English.

Turkish is good in this respect. They even have have regular numbers from 11 to 19.

Yes, but the decades are not related to digits. Two is "iki" while twenty is "yirmi".

Yes. At least it's the relation is not visible to outsiders. Perhaps there's a hidden relation?

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