Chuvash numerals

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Chuvash numerals.

Template:Sidebar with collapsible groups Chuvash numerals is an ancient numeral system from the Old Turkic script the Chuvash people used. (Modern Chuvash use Hindu-Arabic numerals.)

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 File:Chuvash 50.svg
100 𐠀
500 𐠁
1000 𐳿

Examples

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

References

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