IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[Robert Orr]

Scottish Gaelic borrowed the numerals for year dates from English; it
startles non-Gaelic speakers when they hear, e.g.,  "1967" (God, that was a
long time ago!) in the mddle of a flood of Gaelic.

>> I believe English numerals tend to be borrowed into Hind-Urdu...
>>  But please correct me if I'm wrong!

>You're not wrong.  The last time this came up on the list, I checked it with
>Hindi speakers whom I teach.   They knew the Hindi numerals, but agreed that
>in practice they often used English.   They also agreed that this was not a
>statement, but a confession!   The use of English is marked, and might be
>restricted to more casual areas of discourse, and perhaps to younger
>speakers.   But I hardly had an adequate database to make any firm
>statements!

>Peter