Current usage Short scale users English-speaking Most English-language countries and regions use the short scale with 109 being billion. For example: (English-speaking) (English-speaking) (English-speaking) (English-speaking) see Using both below (formerly Swaziland) (English-speaking) (English-speaking) (English-speaking) (English-speaking, , trilliún) (English-speaking) (English-speaking) (English-speaking; billion, trillion) (English-speaking; , (English speaking) see Using both below (English-speaking) (English-speaking) (English-speaking) (English speaking) see Using both below (English-speaking) (English-speaking) (English-speaking) (English-speaking) (see also Wales below) (English speaking) see Using both below (English-speaking) (English-speaking) Arabic-speaking Most Arabic-language countries and regions use the short scale with 109 being , except for a few countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE which use the word بليون for 109. For example: Other short scale Other countries also use a word similar to trillion to mean 1012, etc. Whilst a few of these countries like English use a word similar to billion to mean 109, most like Arabic have kept a traditional long scale word similar to milliard for 109. Some examples of short scale use, and the words used for 109 and 1012, are (Dari: or , , Pashto: , بیلیون , ) (, ) ( , ) (, () ( , ) (Brazilian Portuguese: , ) (, ) ( , ) (Greek: , , , ) ( or , ) ( , ) (, ) (Hebrew: , ) (Kazakh: , ) (Kyrgyz: , ) (, ) (, ) (Romanian: , ) (formerly Burma) (Burmese: , ; , ) (Afrikaans speaking) see Using both below (Spanish speaking) see Using both below ( , ) (Afrikaans speaking) see Using both below (Tajik: , ) (, ) (Turkmen: , ; Russian: , ) ( , ) (Uzbek: , ; Russian: , ) (, ) (In some contexts a paraphrase is needed to resolve ambiguity, as the lenitive of both and is the same: .) Long scale users The traditional long scale is used by most Continental European countries and by most other countries whose languages derive from Continental Europe (with the notable exceptions of Albania, Greece, Romania, and Brazil). These countries use a word similar to billion to mean 1012. Some use a word similar to milliard to mean 109, while others use a word or phrase equivalent to thousand millions. Dutch-speaking Most Dutch-language countries and regions use the long scale with 109 = , for example: French-speaking Most French-language countries and regions use the long scale with 109 = , for example: (Canadian