Sinhala numerals to record donations given by royals and other people who were belonged to the upper echelon of ancient Sinhala society to Buddhist temples. Brahmi numerals are ancestors of Arabic numerals which are used presently worldwide. Brahmi numerals had symbols for 10,100, and 1000. Number 1 and 10 in Brahmi have not been found in Sri Lanka up to now. Therefore, shapes of these two numerals have been hypothesized taking into consideration of shapes of Brahmi Number 1 and 10 found in India without physical evidence . Sinhala rock inscriptions suddenly become barren of numerals from A.D. 400 onwards. Tradition of
Korean numerals tensed consonants when possible. Thus for example: Several numerals have long vowels, namely (two), (three) and (four), but these become short when combined with other numerals / nouns (such as in twelve, thirteen, fourteen and so on). The usual liaison and consonant-tensing rules apply, so for example, "yesun-yeoseot" (sixty-six) is pronounced like ("yesun-nyeoseot") and "chil-sip" (seventy) is pronounced like "chil-ssip". "Beon" (), "ho" (), "cha" (), and "hoe" () are always used with Sino-Korean or Arabic ordinal numerals. For example, "Yihoseon" () is Line Number Two in a metropolitan subway system. "Samsipchilbeongukdo" () is highway number 37. They cannot be