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Modern Devanagari Western Arabic Words for the cardinal number Sanskrit (wordstem) Hindi Marathi Nepali; ०: 0: शून्य (śūnya)शून्य (śūny)शून्य (śūnya)
The most common of these was a vigesimal (base-20) numbering system with the main denomination called a bisi (see Hindustani number bīs), which corresponded to the land required to sow 20 nalis of seed. Consequently, its actual land measure varied based on the quality of the soil. [5] This system became the established norm in Kumaon by 1891.
20 २० વીસ vīs बीस ૧૦૦ 100 १०० સો sō सौ ૧,૦૦૦ 1,000 १,००० હજાર hajār हज़ार ૧૦,૦૦૦ 10,000 १०,००० દસ હજાર das hajār दस हज़ार ૧,૦૦,૦૦૦ 100,000 १,००,००० લાખ lākh लाख ૧०,૦૦,૦૦૦
Like many Indo-Aryan languages, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) has a decimal numeral system that is contracted to the extent that nearly every number 1–99 is irregular, and needs to be memorized as a separate numeral.
Devanagari is a Unicode block containing characters for writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bodo, Maithili, Sindhi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, among others.In its original incarnation, the code points U+0900..U+0954 were a direct copy of the characters A0-F4 from the 1988 ISCII standard.
The Devanāgarī script, composed of 48 primary characters, including 14 vowels and 34 consonants, [11] is the fourth most widely adopted writing system in the world, [12] [13] being used for over 120 languages. [14] The orthography of this script reflects the pronunciation of the language. [14]
Nepali Number System, also known as the Devanagari Number System, is used to represent numbers in Nepali language.It is a positional number system, which means that the value of a digit depends on its position within the number.
Hindustani, the lingua franca of Northern India and Pakistan, has two standardised registers: Hindi and Urdu.Grammatical differences between the two standards are minor but each uses its own script: Hindi uses Devanagari while Urdu uses an extended form of the Perso-Arabic script, typically in the Nastaʿlīq style.