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Russia 100 Rubles (1991) Back

You will find 15 languages for `HUNDRED RUBLES' down at the right-hand side. Each language employs Russian, Latin or original character.
100Rubles-1991
Russian Ukrainian Belarusan
СТО РУБЛЕЙ СТО КАРБОВАНЦІВ СТО РУБЛЁУ
Uzbek Kazakh Georgian
ЮЗ СУМ ЖҮЗ СОМ ასი მანეთი
Azerbaijani Lithuanian Moldovan
ЈҮЗ МАНАТ ŠIMTAS RUBLIU О СУТЭ ДЕ РУБЛЕ
Latvian Kirghiz Tajiki
SIMTS RUBLU ЖҮЗ СОМ САД СУМ
Armenian Turkmen Estonian
ՀԱՐՅՈՒՐ ՌՈԻԲԼԻ ЯҮЗ МАНАТ SADA RUBLA
(Note) CCCP : Союз Советских Социалистических Республик
( Soyuz Sovetsikikh Sotzialisticheskikh Respublik )
USSR: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

China 100 Yuan (1999) Back

You will find 5 languages for " The People's Bank of China (中国人民银行)" up at the right-hand side.
Chinese (Latin transliteration)
ZHONGGUO RENMIN YINHANG
Mongolian (Mongolian) Tibetan (Tibetan)
- ༄༅། །ཀྲུང་གོའི་མི་དམངས་དངུལ་ཁང་། སྒོར་བཅུ
Uygur (Arabic) Zhuang (Latin and Extended-B)
- Cuŋƅgoƨ Yinƨminƨ Yinƨhaŋƨ cib mənƨ
100Yuan-1999

India 5 Rupees (2001) Back

You will find 15+1 languages for `FIVE RUPEES' on the left-hand side.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is India's Central Bank.
भारतीय रिज़र्व बैंक
Assamese Bengali পাঁচ টকা 1
Bengali Bengali পাঁচ টাকা 2
Gujarati Gujarati પાંચા રુપિયા 3
Kannada Kanarese ಐದು ರೂಪಾಯಿಗಳ 4
Kashmiri Arabic - 5
Konkani Devanagari पांच रुपया 6
Malayalam Malayalam - 7
Marathi Devanagari पांच रुपये 8
Nepali Devanagari पाँच रुपियाँ 9
Oriya Oriya - 10
Punjabi Gurmuki ਪੰਜ ਰੁਪਏ 11
Sanskrit Devanagari पञ्चरूप्यकाणि 12
Tamil Tamil ஐந்து ரூபாய் 13
Telugu Telugu అయిదు రూపాయలు 14
Urdu Arabic ﺎﯿﭘﻭﺭ ﭺﺎﭘ 15
Hindi Devanagari पाँच रुपये
5Rupees-2001
(note 1) Dravidian characters in the South India, Arabic characters.
(note 2) No.6 and 9 languages look like Hindi, but are not. See Konkani and Nepali dictionaries.

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MS (2007.11.27)
Updated on 2007.11.28 First edition : 2002.2.22