In the 5th century Mesrop Mashtots invented the Armenian alphabet. It consisted of 36 symbols, each an Armenian sound. He then assigned each of the first 9 letters the numbers 1-9, the second 9 letters the numbers 10,20 etc., the third 9 letters 100, 200 etc., and the last nine letters, 1000, 2000. The alphabet is still in use, although 3 letters have been added. Luckily most signs are in English since it is not possible for us to translate. We visited a manuscript museum with volumes dating way back.
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The characters for the letters and numbers are the same in Hebrew too.
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