A lakh (also written lac) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; 10⁵). The Indian numbering system, used today in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar (Burma is based on grouping by two It is widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Pakistan, and is often used in Indian English. ( Bengali: বাংলাদেশ inc-Latn Bangladesh) officially India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Nepal (नेपाल) is a Landlocked country in South Asia. Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ( Sinhalese:, இலங்கை known as Ceylon before 1972 is an Island Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar ( pjìdàunzṵ mjàmmà nàinŋàndɔ̀ is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia. Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and Indian English comprises several Dialects or varieties of English spoken primarily in India, and by first-generation members of the Indian diaspora

This system of measurement also introduces separators into numbers in a place that is different from that which is common in certain other number systems. In a positional Numeral system, the decimal separator is a Symbol used to mark the boundary between the integral and the fractional For example, 30 lakh which is to say 3 million, would be written as 30,00,000 instead of 3,000,000. The word million In standard English, the -lli- in million is pronounced with an l-sound followed by a In this system of counting, a hundred lakhs make a crore, which is ten million. A crore is a unit in the Indian numbering system and was formerly a unit in the Persian numbering system still widely used in Bangladesh, India, Maldives

In India, one lakh is written as 1,00,000. In most other parts of the world, the comma appears every three positions, so a lakh would usually be written as 100,000 outside India.

In India, the first comma appears after three places, but after every two places thereafter.

Examples of the Indian comma system: 12,12,12,123    5,05,000    7,00,00,00,000.

The same examples in the Western system: 121,212,123    505,000    7,000,000,000

Etymology and regional variants

The lakh is known by various regional names in modern languages, all derived from the Sanskrit word लक्ष lakṣa "hundred thousand":

• Assamese: লাখ lakh
• Bengali: লাখ lakh or লক্ষ lokkho
• Gujarati: લાખ lākh
• Hindi लाख lākh
• Japanese: 洛叉 rakusha
• Kannada: ಲಕ್ಷ lakṣa
• Malayalam: ലക്ഷം lakṣam
• Mandarin: 洛叉 luòchā
• Marathi: लाख lākh or लक्ष lakṣa
• Nepali: लाख lākh
• Pashto: لک lakh
• Punjabi: ਲਾਖ lākh
• Swahili: laki or lakhi
• Tamil : இலட்சம் laṭcham
• Telugu: లక్ష lakṣa
• Urdu: لکھ lakh

See also

• Crore (= 100 lakh)
• Names of numbers in English
• Names of large numbers

Assamese (অসমীয়া) (ɔxɔmija is the easternmost Indo-Aryan language, spoken mainly in the state of Assam in North-East Gujarati (ગુજરાતી Gujǎrātī ? Hindi ( Devanāgarī: hi [[wiktहिन्दी हिन्दी]] or hi [[wiktहिंदी हिंदी]] IAST:, IPA:) is is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities Kannada (kn [[wiktಕನ್ನಡ ಕನ್ನಡ]] Kannaḍa) is one of the major Dravidian languages of India, spoken predominantly in the state Not to be confused with the Malay language. Malayalam (മലയാളം malayāḷaṁ) is a Dravidian language used Standard Mandarin, also known as Standard Spoken Chinese, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used in mainland China and Taiwan Marathi (mr मराठी Marāṭhī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of what is considered western India. Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Nepal, Bhutan, and some parts of India and Myanmar (Burma Pashto ( Naskh: پښتو‎ pəʂ'to also rendered as Pakhto, Pushto, Pukhto, Pashtu, Pushtu, also known as Punjabi (pa ਪੰਜਾਬੀ in Gurmukhi script pa-PK {{Nastaliq پنجابی}} in Shahmukhi script Pañjābī in Transliteration) is an Swahili (called Kiswahili in the language itself is the First language of the Swahili people (Waswahili who inhabit several large stretches Tamil (ta தமிழ்; t̪əmɨɻ is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. Urdu ( ur '''{{Nastaliq اردو}}''' trans Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is a Central Indo-Aryan language Urdu is a standardised A crore is a unit in the Indian numbering system and was formerly a unit in the Persian numbering system still widely used in Bangladesh, India, Maldives Names of numbers larger than a quadrillion are almost never used for reasons discussed further below

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