Betawi numbers

How to count in Betawi (basè Betawi / basa Betawi), a Malay-based creole spoken mainly in the Jakarta region of Indonesia.

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Numeral Cardinal
1 atu', hatu
2 duwa
3 tiga'
4 ampat', 'mpat
5 lima
6 enem
7 tuju
8 lapan
9 sembilan
10 sepulu
100 cepé
1,000 céng
2,000 nocéeng
10,000 ceban

Notes

The words for thousands are borrowed from Hokkien.

Sources and Information about counting in Betawi
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Betawi_phrasebook
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Betawi_cardinal_numbers

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