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tldr, visual symbolisation leads to numbers. Example being Inuit's (eskimos) have many different words for the different types of snow they experience, but Europeans have maybe a few words or even just one word to describe snow.

Vocabulary is defined by your environment, which will include concepts like numbers.

Look at Hungarian notation and decimal or imperial counting schemes. Different methods of counting numbers to suit the environment they evolved from.



> Europeans have maybe a few words or even just one word to describe snow

Really? In common use: snow, sleet, hail, flurry, frost, hoar, ice, rime, (snow)drift, powder, slush. Less commonly: firn, neve, sastrugi, suncups, ...


Well I understood they had lots of words, some suggestions have been as high as 52 words for snow, but other sources suggest otherwise. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/inuktitut-... but it appears Scots have 421 words for snow. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34323967

But another concept which an AI or aliens may not be familiar with is the concept of time and the way it is visualised.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221103-how-language-war...




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