Which dialect of French uses the terms 'Septant, Octante, Nonant' instead of 'Soixant, Soixant-Dix, and Quatre-Vingt'?

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Which dialect of French uses the terms 'Septant, Octante, Nonant' instead of 'Soixant, Soixant-Dix, and Quatre-Vingt'?

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Last updated Nov 30 2022.
Originally posted Nov 20 2022 6:04 PM.

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Belgians and Swiss use those terms, but not exactly as stated in the question.

Septant = 70 = Soixante-dix
Octant (or Huitant) = 80 = Quatre-vingt
Nonant = 90 = Quatre-vingt-dix

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/french-numbers-septante-huitante-octante-nonante-soixante-dix-quatre-vingts-quatre-vingt-dix.4205/

Nov 20 2022, 8:11 PM

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I messed up.

Nov 21 2022, 2:01 PM

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They are also used in some parts of former Belgian colonies such as Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (although the latter was technically not a colony but a personal possession of the Belgian King).

https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/soixante--septante--huitante--nonante--logique-/25525018

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In Acadian French and on Jersey there is even a form "huiptante" instead of "huitante".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadian_French

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia_(region)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/huiptante

Nov 30 2022, 1:01 AM

Which dialect of French uses the terms 'Septant, Octante, Nonant' instead of 'Soixant, Soixant-Dix, and Quatre-Vingt'?

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