Those numerals originate from finger numeration. They look like Roman numerals, but larger numerals stay at the right side. It was possible to carve those numerals on wood. In some cases numerals were preserved until the beginning of the 20th century.[1][2]
Numeral
Chuvash numeral
1
I
5
/
10
X
50
100
𐠀
500
𐠁
1000
✳
Examples
Hindu-Arabic
Chuvash
2
II
4
IIII
6
I/
19
IIII/X
32
IIXXX
47
II/XXXX
References
^сентября», Федотова Людмила Аркадьевна, Флегентова Апполинария Алексеевна, Издательский дом «Первое (14 July 2014). "Интегрированный урок на тему "Чувашские числовые знаки". 5-й класс". festival.1september.ru. Retrieved 2016-06-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Nikiforova, Ludmila. "Chuvashskaya pismennost". Archived from the original on 2016-08-28.
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