Chuvash numerals

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Chuvash numerals.

Chuvash numerals is an ancient

Hindu-Arabic numerals
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Those numerals originate from finger numeration. They look like Roman numerals, but larger numerals stay at the right side. It was possible to carve those numerals on wood. In some cases numerals were preserved until the beginning of the 20th century.[1][2]

Numeral Chuvash numeral
1 I
5 /
10 X
50
100 𐠀
500 𐠁
1000

Examples

Hindu-Arabic Chuvash
2 II
4 IIII
6 I/
19 IIII/X
32 IIXXX
47 II/XXXX

References

  1. ^ сентября», Федотова Людмила Аркадьевна, Флегентова Апполинария Алексеевна, Издательский дом «Первое (14 July 2014). "Интегрированный урок на тему "Чувашские числовые знаки". 5-й класс". festival.1september.ru. Retrieved 2016-06-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Nikiforova, Ludmila. "Chuvashskaya pismennost". Archived from the original on 2016-08-28.