![]() When printing started and when people started using place value notation zero is included in Tamil numerals. NOTE: Ancient Tamil was not having zero in its numeral system (just like roman numerals) and the numbers were represented similar to roman numerals. Here are the numerals of indic languages from the most popularly used numeral systems. ![]() (For those who do not know, the official name for the 0,1 2, 3…9 that we use in our daily lives is Arabic numerals! It has many names: Arabic numerals, West Arabic numerals, Hindu numerals, Indo-Arabic numerals, Hindu-Arabic numerals, to name a few :), but many of us refer them as English or Roman or international numerals). Even though most Indic scripts has its own unique glyphs/symbols (see the following table) for representing numerals, many use Arabic numerals (or Indo-Arabic numerals) instead of language’s own numeral glyphs. ![]() All Indic languages use its own script for representing the text, but the situation is very different when some one need to represent the numerals. ![]() As all of you know, most Indic languages use unique scripts for writing the language while some share a common script, such as Devanagari (for Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Nepali and Bhojpuri).Ī very interesting phenomenon in Indic languages is the usage of numerals.
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