Armenian numerals

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The system of Armenian numerals is a historic numeral system created using the (uppercase) letters of the ancient Armenians. In modern Armenia, the familiar Arabic numerals are used. There was no notation for zero in the old system, and the numeric values for individual letters were added together. The principles behind this system are the same as for the Ancient Greek numerals and Hebrew numerals.

Since not all browsers can render Unicode Armenian letters, their phonetic equivalents are also given in this table.

Armenian numerals

Armenian	Western phonetic	Eastern phonetic	Arabic
Ա	ayp	ayb	1
Բ	pen	ben	2
Գ	keem	gim	3
Դ	ta	da	4
Ե	yech	ech	5
Զ	za	za	6
Է	eh	eh	7
Ը	uht	et	8
Թ	toh	to	9
Ժ	zhe	zhe	10
Ի	eenee	ini	20
Լ	lyoon	liwn	30
Խ	kheh	xeh	40
Ծ	dza	ca	50
Կ	gen	ken	60
Հ	ho	ho	70
Ձ	tza	ja	80
Ղ	ghad	ghad	90
Ճ	djeh	cheh	100
Մ	men	men	200
Յ	hee	yi	300
Ն	noo	now	400
Շ	sha	sha	500
Ո	vo	vo	600
Չ	cha	cha	700
Պ	beh	peh	800
Ջ	cheh	jheh	900
Ռ	ra	ra	1000
Ս	seh	seh	2000
Վ	vehv	vew	3000
Տ	dyoon	tiwn	4000
Ր	reh	reh	5000
Ց	tzo	co	6000
Ւ	hyoon	yiwn	7000
Փ	pyoor	piwr	8000
Ք	keh	keh	9000

Note that the final two letters of the Armenian alphabet, "o" (Օ) and "fe" (Ֆ) were added to the Armenian alphabet only after Arabic numerals were already in use, to facilitate transliteration of other languages. Thus, they do not have a numerical value assigned to them.

Examples:

• ՌՋՀԵ = 1975 = 1000 + 900 + 70 + 5
• ՍՄԻԲ = 2222 = 2000 + 200 + 20 + 2
• ՍԴ = 2004 = 2000 + 4
• ՃԻ = 120 = 100 + 20
• Ծ = 50

 

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