(Incidentally, isn’t it wonderful that you can download these for free from an official website!) However, the situation is not so in media (print, online or TV) – where most use Arabic numerals. Some Kannada text books also use Kannada numerals such as the 10th standard textbooks. (It is actually thanks to this use of Kannada along with English in public space that I learned to read and write Kannada quickly (including numerals!)). Having lived in Bangalore for many years, I have seen Kannada numerals used for bus numbers and elsewhere. The wikipedias in these languages (Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam) also completely moved to Arabic numerals. The majority of the current generation of the speakers of these languages cannot even identify the numerals of their own mother language. Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam now use Arabic numerals almost exclusively for everything. Even school text books have gone down this road.
More details about this is there in the next few sections. Those of you familiar with any one of these languages will quickly realize that many of us do not use these numerals in our daily life – as Arabic numerals are now the norm in many languages. When printing started and when people started using place value notation zero is included in Tamil numerals.
NOTE: Ancient Tamil was not having zero in its numeral system (just like roman numerals) and the numbers were represented similar to roman numerals. Here are the numerals of indic languages from the most popularly used numeral systems.
(For those who do not know, the official name for the 0,1 2, 3…9 that we use in our daily lives is Arabic numerals! It has many names: Arabic numerals, West Arabic numerals, Hindu numerals, Indo-Arabic numerals, Hindu-Arabic numerals, to name a few :), but many of us refer them as English or Roman or international numerals). Even though most Indic scripts has its own unique glyphs/symbols (see the following table) for representing numerals, many use Arabic numerals (or Indo-Arabic numerals) instead of language’s own numeral glyphs. All Indic languages use its own script for representing the text, but the situation is very different when some one need to represent the numerals. As all of you know, most Indic languages use unique scripts for writing the language while some share a common script, such as Devanagari (for Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Nepali and Bhojpuri).Ī very interesting phenomenon in Indic languages is the usage of numerals.
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