How to count in Burmese / Myanmar, a Lolo-Burmese language spoken in Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh in India.
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| Numeral | Cardinal numbers | Ordinal numbers |
|---|---|---|
| 0 (၀) | သုည (thoun-nya) [θòʊɴɲa̰] | |
| 1 (၁) | တစ် (tit) [tɪʔ] | ပထမ [pətʰəma̰] |
| 2 (၂) | နှစ် (hni) [n̥ɪʔ] | ဒုတိယ [dṵtḭja̰] |
| 3 (၃) | သုံး (thoun) [θóʊɴ] | တတိယ [taʔtḭja̰] |
| 4 (၄) | လေး (lei) [lé] | စတုတ္ထ [zədoʊʔtʰa̰] |
| 5 (၅) | ငါး (nga) [ŋá] | ပဉ္စမ [pjɪ̀ɴsəma̰] |
| 6 (၆) | ခြောက် (chao) [tɕʰaʊʔ] | ဆဋ္ဌမ [sʰaʔtʰa̰ma̰] |
| 7 (၇) | ခုနှစ် (kun hni) [kʰʊ̀ɴ n̥ɪʔ] | သတ္တမ [θaʔtəma̰] |
| 8 (၈) | ရှစ် (shit) [ʃɪʔ] | အဋ္ဌမ [ʔaʔtʰama̰] |
| 9 (၉) | ကိုး (koe) [kó] | နဝမ [nəwəma̰] |
| 10 (၁၀) | ဆယ် (se) [sʰɛ̀] | ဒသမ [daʔθəma̰] |
| 11 (၁၁) | ဆယ့်တစ် (seh-tit) | |
| 12 (၁၂) | ဆယ့်နှစ် (seh-hni) | |
| 13 (၁၃) | ဆယ့်သုံး (seh-thoun) | |
| 14 (၁၄) | ဆယ့်လေး (seh-lei) | |
| 15 (၁၅) | ဆယ့်ငါး (seh-nga) | |
| 16 (၁၆) | ဆယ့်ခြောက် (seh-chao) | |
| 17 (၁၇) | ဆယ့်ခုနှစ် (seh-kun-hni) | |
| 18 (၁၈) | ဆယ့်ရှစ် (seh-shit) | |
| 19 (၁၉) | ဆယ့်ကိုး (seh-koe) | |
| 20 (၂၀) | နှစ်ဆယ် (hna-seh) | |
| 21 (၂၁) | နှစ်ဆယ့်တစ် (hna-seh-tit) | |
| 22 (၂၂) | နှစ်ဆယ့်နှစ် (hna-seh-hnih) | |
| 23 (၂၃) | နှစ်ဆယ့်သုံး (hna-seh-thoun) | |
| 24 (၂၄) | နှစ်ဆယ့်လေး (hna-seh-lei) | |
| 25 (၂၅) | နှစ်ဆယ့်ငါး (hna-seh-nga) | |
| 26 (၂၆) | နှစ်ဆယ့်ခြောက် (hna-seh-chao) | |
| 27 (၂၇) | နှစ်ဆယ့်ခုနှစ် (hna-seh-kun) | |
| 28 (၂၈) | နှစ်ဆယ့်ရှစ် (hna-seh-shit) | |
| 29 (၂၉) | နှစ်ဆယ့်ကိုး (hna-seh-koe) | |
| 30 (၃၀) | သုံးဆယ် (thoun-seh) | |
| 40 (၄၀) | လေးဆယ် (lei-seh) | |
| 50 (၅၀) | ငါးဆယ် (nga-seh) | |
| 60 (၆၀) | ခြောက်ဆယ့် (chao-seh) [tɕʰaʊʔ sʰɛ̰] | |
| 70 (၇၀) | ခုနှစ်ဆယ် (kun-hna-seh) | |
| 80 (၈၀) | ရှစ်ဆယ် (shit-seh) | |
| 90 (၉၀) | ကိုးဆယ် (koe-zeh) | |
| 100 (၁၀၀) | ရာ (ya) [jà] | |
| 200 (၂၀၀) | နှစ်ရာ (hni-ya) | |
| 300 (၃၀၀) | သုံးရာ (thoun-ya) | |
| 400 (၄၀၀) | လေးရာ (lei-ya) | |
| 500 (၅၀၀) | ငါးရာ့ (nga-ya) [ŋá ja̰] | |
| 600 (၅၀၀) | ခြောက်ရာ (chao-ya) | |
| 700 (၅၀၀) | ခုနှစ်ရာ (kun-hni-ya) | |
| 800 (၅၀၀) | ရှစ်ရာ (shit-ya) | |
| 900 (၅၀၀) | ကိုးရာ (koe-ya) | |
| 1,000 (၁၀၀၀) | ထောင် (taon) [tʰàʊɴ] | |
| 2,000 (၂၀၀၀) | နှစ်ထောင် (hna-taon) | |
| 10,000 (၁၀၀၀၀) |
သောင်း (thaon) [θáʊɴ] | |
| 100,000 (၁၀၀၀၀၀) |
သိန်း (thein) [θéɪɴ] | |
| 1,000,000 (၁၀၀၀၀၀၀) |
သန်း (than) [θáɴ] |
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http://free.lessons.l-ceps.com/learn-burmese-free-lesson-3.html
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