History lesson for our dear Robert: The source of Arabic numerals!

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Oct 19, 2018 at 06:44

Our dear Robert wrote this little gem:

>Arabic Numerals until the idle of the 20th Century, but shortly thereafter they became known as the HINDU-ARABIC NUMERALS

Both the Arabic Abgad (alphabet) and the Arabic numerals were plagiarized from the Syriac alphabet and numerals

Here check this video! These are the numerals in Syriac and any Arabic speaker will be able to understand this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpLtJoqx5ow

BTW: Why the Caps?

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