Armenian numerals

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The system of Armenian numerals is a historic numeral system originating using the (capital) 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	Phonetic	Arabic
Ա	ayb	1
Բ	ben	2
Գ	gim	3
Դ	da	4
Ե	ech	5
Զ	za	6
Է	eh	7
Ը	et	8
Թ	to	9
Ժ	zhe	10
Ի	ini	20
Լ	liwn	30
Խ	xeh	40
Ծ	ca	50
Կ	ken	60
Հ	ho	70
Ձ	ja	80
Ղ	ghad	90
Ճ	cheh	100
Մ	men	200
Յ	yi	300
Ն	now	400
Շ	sha	500
Ո	vo	600
Չ	cha	700
Պ	peh	800
Ջ	jheh	900
Ռ	ra	1000
Ս	seh	2000
Վ	vew	3000
Տ	tiwn	4000
Ր	reh	5000
Ց	co	6000
Ւ	yiwn	7000
Փ	piwr	8000
Ք	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

See also: Armenian numerals, 0 (number), 1000 (number), 100 (number), 10 (number), 1 (number), 2000 (number)