[brokenkebab2]

>If I ask you to count the number of red balls in a bag with only 3 yellow balls, then the initial count in your head is 0,

Sorry, no. Humans count from 1. That's just a basic fact reflected in the history of numbers, which at early stages often didn't treat 0 as a number, but as a special case. And if you would say "I counted zero red balls" most people around will find it an unusual wording. Normal way of saying it doesn't involve mentioning 0 at all: "It's empty", "There are no red balls" etc.

[WorldMaker]

That special casing in English of no/none/empty is as much an artifact of lost germanic grammar cases in English as it is anything "natural" or inherent to how English speakers count.

[brokenkebab2]

I'm a member of multilingual family, and I'm inclined to insist it's not about Germanic grammar cases, because it's true for non-Germanic languages as well.