I've read a bit in Mandarin and its sisters but I never got as far as numerals; mostly stopped at the Wikipedia page!
+Sebastian, I'd really, really^99, love to see a paper about that research. I've been fascinated with SW-H until they left me no evidence it could exist... If the research is 'that' positive, I might take out a few old projects from my safe!
From my meager experience, the lojban system is nicer than English for
thinking of _numbers_, as long as _quantity_ doesn't matter. That's
okay, though, because any digit based system is poor at expressing
quantity at scale.
+.arpis. , So that's a 'go-for-it' recommendation?
PS. I'm sorry for late replies, those I've made and those yet to come, but my connection is quite unstable >.<