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five ခွက် CL ၅ ခွက် five CL ' 5 cups' In spoken Burmese, for round numbers (numbers ending in zeroes), the word order is flipped to measure word + number: ခွက် CL ၂၀ twenty ခွက် ၂၀ CL twenty ' 20 cups' The exception to this rule is the number 10, which follows the standard word order. ၁၀ ten ခွက် CL ၁၀ ခွက် ten CL ' 10 cups ...
The Burmese alphabet (Burmese: မြန်မာအက္ခရာ myanma akkha.ya, pronounced [mjəmà ʔɛʔkʰəjà]) is an abugida used for writing Burmese. It is ultimately adapted from a Brahmic script, either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet of South India. The Burmese alphabet is also used for the liturgical languages of Pali and Sanskrit.
In Burmese, classifiers or measure words, in the form of particles, are used when counting or measuring nouns. They immediately follow the number, unless the number is a round number (ends in a zero), in which case, the measure word precedes the number. Nouns to which the classifiers refer to can be omitted if the context allows, because many ...
Peacock and "100 kyats" written in Burmese with rising sun in background Ks. 100/- 155 × 95 mm Dark blue Peacock and "100 kyats" written over Burmese "100" numerals with image of Head of State Ba Maw on right Mandalay Royal Palace in center bordered by Burmese nāgas with "100" in Burmese numerals on left and right Head of State Ba Maw's image ...
Burmese digits are traditionally written using a set of numerals unique to the Mon–Burmese script, although Arabic numerals are also used in informal contexts. The cardinal forms of Burmese numerals are primarily inherited from the Proto-Sino-Tibetan language, with cognates with modern-day Sino-Tibetan languages, including the Chinese and ...
A decimal numbering system is used, and numbers are written in the same order as Hindu–Arabic numerals. The digits from zero to nine are: ၀၁၂၃၄၅၆၇၈၉ ( Unicode 1040 to 1049). The number 1945 would be written as ၁၉၄၅.
There are differences between the numerals used by the Shan script in China and Myanmar. The numerals used by Shan in China are similar to the numbers in Tham script and Tai Le script in China and the numbers in Burmese, while the Shan numerals in Myanmar form their own system, similar to the Burmese Tai Le numerals.
"A base is a natural number B whose powers (B multiplied by itself some number of times) are specially designated within a numerical system." [1]: 38 The term is not equivalent to radix, as it applies to all numerical notation systems (not just positional ones with a radix) and most systems of spoken numbers. [1]