Most European languages such as German , French , Spanish , Italian , Russian , Romanian , Finnish , Georgian , Swedish , Danish , Portuguese , Dutch , Hungarian , Norwegian , Polish , Czech , Slovak , and Bulgarian , use milliard ( or a related word ) for the short scale billion ( ) , and billion ( or a related word ) is used for the long scale billion ( ) , as it was originally intended .
It was originally intended to save the use of milliard and billion in most European languages .