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I'm not sure about Arabic, but my understanding of Hebrew (another member of the Semitic language family) is that they still pronounce the numbers left to right
by KMag 12y ago
I'm not sure about Arabic, but my understanding of Hebrew (another member of the Semitic language family) is that they still pronounce the numbers left to right, and if a line break forces digits to be split across lines, the most significant digits are put on the top line.
- hamstergene 12y agoYou got me curious. I googled and found[1] that indeed they only pronounce numbers 21-99 that way, e.g. for 31 the order of words is "one thirty", but higher order components go left to right, e.g. for 25031 the order of words is "five twenty thousand one thirty". 1. http://arabic.tripod.com/VocabNumbers.htm http://arabic.tripod.com/VocabNumbers.htm