Re: bidi language

Marco Cimarosti scripsit:

> Moreover, different dialects use different word orders for saying high
> numbers. E.g., "123" can be "hundred and twenty and three", "hundred and
> three and twenty", or "three and twenty and hundred". I suspect that this
> too can influence the way numbers are written.

Interesting! What is the convention of modern standard Arabic? For example,
if the number is written out in words, how is it written out?

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