How to separate category list into multiple pages

it doesn’t have to be a fancy pagination but i just want to be able to control the number of categories per page in a category list is there anyway to do this, or something similar to the way joomla does it with their categories?

<?php
$categories = get_categories();
foreach ($categories as $cat) {
	if ($cat->category_parent != 0) {
		echo '<span style="padding-left:10px;">';
	}
	echo '<a href="'.get_option('home').get_option('category_base').'/'.$cat->category_nicename.'/">'.$cat->cat_name.'</a> ('.$cat->category_count.')';
	if ($cat->category_description != '') {
		echo ' - '.$cat->category_description;
	}
	if ($cat->category_parent != 0) {
		echo '</span>';
	}
	echo '<br />';
}
?>