[math-fun] Counting/counters/N/Z/units, etc.

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?