Chinese also has such words. I remember "i tiao lu" "one long-thing road".
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The Japanese language has multiple types of "counters" for counting different types of objects. They act kind of like units to disambiguate certain sentences. I don't recall any such concept from any European languages (Latin, German, French, etc.). The only distinction in English is between "mass" nouns (sheep, etc.) and discrete nouns (cow/cows). European languages often give inanimate objects a gender, but this is orthogonal to the counting issue.
Do other Asian languages have similar features to Japanese?
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