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The Indian numbering system is used in Indian English and the Indian subcontinent to express large numbers. Commonly used quantities include lakh (one hundred thousand) and crore (ten million) – written as 1,00,000 and 1,00,00,000 respectively in some locales. [1]
Lakh and crore are common enough to have entered Indian English. For number 0, Modern Standard Hindi is more inclined towards śūnya (a Sanskrit tatsama) and Standard Urdu is more inclined towards sifr (borrowed from Arabic), while the native tadbhava-form is sunnā in Hindustani.
As a native Hindi speaker, I can confirm that both ways are correct, and can be used interchangeably: 1,00,00,00,000 = 1 arab | (Hindi pronounciation: ek arab) 100,00,00,000 = 100 crore | (Hindi pronounciation: sau crore) However, the first one is the traditional academic/formal usage as well as the part of the system being described.
Crore (/ k r ɔːr /; abbreviated cr) denotes the quantity ten million (10 7) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system. In many international contexts, the decimal quantity is formatted as 10,000,000, but when used in the context of the Indian numbering system, the quantity is usually formatted 1,00,00,000.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Hindi and Urdu on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hindi and Urdu in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
[35] [36] Among these, /f, z/, also found in English and Portuguese loanwords, are now considered well-established in Hindi; indeed, /f/ appears to be encroaching upon and replacing /pʰ/ even in native (non-Persian, non-English, non-Portuguese) Hindi words as well as many other Indian languages such as Bengali, Gujarati and Marathi, as ...
In its Hindi/Urdu/Hindustani form it's pronounced as kuror where ku- is as mu- in must, ro- as mo- in more and a unique "r" sound which doesn't exist in English and ...
Found this helpful audio file at Hindustani phonology (diff's version at retrieval) for pronunciation, with IAST & IPA. It does not contain audio for all the consonants, but only for plosives and affricatives. These audio files seem relevant for discussion about 'retroflex Vs dental' in Help talk:IPA for Hindi and Urdu's talk page here & also here.