Tamil - தமிழ்

You have heard of this very old language ?
If yes.. You should have been able to appreciate its richness.

Its so rich and one of the most ancient languages that started in the southern most state of India called Tamil Nadu.
Its so rich with many features.... It has some of the best book - If you have heard of Thirukkural, Silapathigaram etc etc. These are some of the books that proves you the power of this language.

I know theses stuff already and i know very little about numbers in this powerful language.
Recently, one of my friends sent me a mail that explained more about numbers in Tamil and the extent to which it can extend.

So... here is it for you.. Actually the mail contained few other things in random fashion and i have put some effort in consolidating and bringing you the actual content which i have listed below...

The power of numbers in Tamil (Ancient Indian language)

The below things are in a particular order
ie - Number in digits - Tamil Equivalent word - English word for that number



So... when you go through the above list, you can see that there are no words for the digits in English and i doubt if there are words for those in any of the world languages. But as you can see there are words for those in Tamil and people do use it in daily life.


What do you think?
Enlighten me if there are any language in the world which does the job and so powerful.

 

 

 

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I have a hard time imagining people using digits above trillions in everyday life.

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Yeah, I agree with dre here, I find it rather difficult to imagine someone often using billions or such in everyday life... Other than say, microbiologists or something like that...

Anyways, here are some more names for numbers... And I added their equivalents in Serbian language...



It would be interesting to see these numbers in some other language aswell...

 

 

 

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Well that covered Russian and Ukrainian as well, spelled the same and mean the same from what I can see.

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