This article presents a multimodal analysis of number-based nonverbal signs, offering one of the first integrative models that unifies their cognitive, semiotic, pragmatic, cultural, and digital dimensions. Drawing on comparative evidence from Uzbek, English, Russian, and Turkish, the study demonstrates how numerical gestures evolve from embodied finger-counting practices to culturally loaded ritual symbols and further into algorithmic codes within digital communication. The methodology incorporates Peircean semiotics, cross-linguistic cultural comparison, speech-act pragmatics, multimodal discourse analysis, and digital semiotics. The results reveal the cognitive specificity of number gestures in child development, their stable interactional and evaluative functions across cultures, culturally anchored symbolism (e.g., 7, 12, 40), and their transformation into globally recognizable digital signs such as “100,” “404,” and “143.” The proposed five-criteria semiotic classification provides a comprehensive framework for understanding how numbers function as multimodal semiotic units integrating perceptual, interactional, and digital meanings.

Number-based nonverbal signs, multimodal semiotics, cultural symbolism, numerical gestures

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