Quote Originally Posted by charitra View Post
Namaste all
see the striking resemblance between hindu- arabic and Persian (Zorastrian)- urdu numerals, the later is a much older civilization than the 2 abrahamic faiths, somewhat younger than the hindu civilization..

Persian variant: ۱: ۲: ۳: ۴: ۵: ۶: ۷: ۸: ۹

Arabic 123456789 Indian numerals١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩

Persians pronounce the numerals very close to Devanagari pronunciation:
ek, do, se, char, panch, seesh, hapht, aasht, nou, das. But they call zero as sifr.
The proposed ancestor (of Persian, Hindi, Latin, Greek, Russian, et al) language's numbers were:

oino, dwo, trei, kwetker, penkwe, sweks, sept, oktou, newn, dekm

Russian:

1 - один (adeen)
2 - два (dva)
3 - три (tri)
4 - четыре (chyetirye)
5 - пять (pyat)
6 - шесть (shest)
7 - семь (syem)
8 - восемь (vosyem)
9 - девять (dyeviat)
10 - десять (dyesiat)

It looks like Russian one, eight, and nine deviate from the pattern. I wonder how that happened. Maybe eight, vosyem is "one more than seven" and nine is "one less than 10".