Numbers in Tibetan

How to count in Tibetan (བོད་​སྐད་​), a Tibetic language spoken in parts of China, India and Nepal.

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Numeral Cardinal numbers Ordinal numbers
0 (༠) ཀླད་​ཀོར་​ (laykor)
1 (༡) གཅིག་​ (chig) [t͡ɕi˥˩] དང་​པོ་​ (dang po) [tʰaŋ˩˧.ko˥˥]
2 (༢) གཉིས་​ (nyi) [ȵiː˥˥] གཉིས་​པ་​ (nyi pa)
3 (༣) གསུམ་​ (sum) [sum˥˥] གསུམ་​པ་​ (sum pa)
4 (༤) བཞི་​ (shi) [ɕi˩˧] བཞི་​པ་​ (shi pa)
5 (༥) ལྔ་​ (nga) [ŋa˥˥] ལྔ་​པ་​ (nga pa)
6 (༦) དྲུག་​ (trug) [ʈ͡ʂʰu˩˧˨] དྲུག་​པ་​ (trug pa)
7 (༧) བདུན་​ (dün) [tỹ˩˧] བདུན་​པ་​ (dün pa)
8 (༨) པརྒྱད་​ (gyay) [cɛː˩˧˨] བརྒྱད་​པ་​ (gyay pa)
9 (༩) དགུ་​ (gu) [ku˩˧] དགུ་​པ་​ (gu pa)
10 (༡༠) བཅུ་​ (chu) [t͡ɕu˥˥] བཅུ་​པ་​ (chu pa)
11 (༡༡) བཅུ་​གཅིག་​ (chu ji) [t͡ɕu˥˥.t͡ɕi˥˩] བཅུ་​གཅིག་​པ་​ (chu ji pa)
12 (༡༢) བཅུ་​གཉིས་​ (chu nyi) [t͡ɕu˥˥.ȵiː˥˥]
13 (༡༣) བཅུ་​གསུམ་​ (chok sum)
14 (༡༤) བཅུ་​བཞི་​ (chu shi) [t͡ɕu˥˥.ɕi˩˧]
15 (༡༥) བཅུ་​ལྔ་​ (cho nga) [t͡ɕu˥˥.ŋa˥˥]
16 (༡༦) བཅུ་​དྲུག་​ (chu du) [t͡ɕu˥˥.ʈ͡ʂʰu˩˧˨]
17 (༡༧) བཅུ་​བདུན་​ (chug dün) [t͡ɕu˥˥.tỹ˩˧]
18 (༡༨) བཅུ་​པརྒྱད་​ (chu gyay) [t͡ɕu˥˥.cɛː˩˧˨]
19 (༡༩) བཅུ་​དགུ་​ (chu gu) [t͡ɕu˥˥.ku˩˧]
20 (༢༠) ཉི་​ཤུ་​ (nyi shu) [ȵi˩˧.ɕu˥˥]
21 (༢༡) ཉི་​ཤུ་​རྩ་​གཅིག་​ (nyi shu tsa ji)
22 (༢༢) ཉི་​ཤུ་​རྩགཉིས་​ (nyi shu tsa nyi)
23 (༢༣) ཉི་​ཤུ་​རྩགསུམ་​ (nyi shu tsa sum)
24 (༢༤) ཉི་​ཤུ་​རྩབཞི་​ (nyi shu tsa shi)
25 (༢༥) ཉི་​ཤུ་​རྩ་​ལྔ་​ (nyi shu tsa nga)
26 (༢༦) ཉི་​ཤུ་​རྩདྲུག་​ (nyi shu tsa du)
27 (༢༧) ཉི་​ཤུ་​རྩབདུན་​ (nyi shu tsa dün)
28 (༢༨) ཉི་​ཤུ་​རྩཔརྒྱད་​ (nyi shu tsa gyay)
29 (༢༩) ཉི་​ཤུ་​རྩདགུ་​ nyi shu tsa gu)
30 (༣༠) སུམ་​ཅུ (sum ju)
40 (༤༠) བཞི་​བཅུ (ship ju)
50 (༥༠) ལྔ་​བཅུ (ngap ju)
60 (༦༠) དྲུག་​ཅུ (trug chu) [ʈ͡ʂʰu(k̚)ˀ˩˧.t͡ɕu˥˥]
70 (༧༠) བདུན་​ཅུ (dün ju) [tỹ˩˧.t͡ɕu˥˥]
80 (༨༠) བརྒྱད་​ཅུ (gyay ju) [cɛː˩˧.t͡ɕu˥˥]
90 (༩༠) དགུ་​བཅུ (gup ju) [kup̚˩˧.t͡ɕu˥˥]
100 (༡༠༠) བརྒྱ་​ (gya)
200 (༢༠༠) བརྒྱ་​གཉིས་​ (gya nyi)
300 (༣༠༠) བརྒྱ་​གསུམ་​ (gya sum)
400 (༤༠༠) བརྒྱ་​བཞི་​ (gya shi)
500 (༥༠༠) བརྒྱ་​ལྔ་​ (gya nga)
600 (༦༠༠) བརྒྱ་​དྲུག་​ (gya trug)
700 (༧༠༠) བརྒྱ་​བདུན་​ (gya dün)
800 (༨༠༠) བརྒྱ་​པརྒྱད་​ (gya gyay)
900 (༩༠༠) བརྒྱ་​དགུ་​ (gya gu)
1,000 (༡༠༠༠) སྟོང་​ (tong) [toŋ˥˥]
2,000 (༢༠༠༠) སྟོངགཉིས་​་​ (tong nyi)
3,000 (༣༠༠༠) སྟོང་​གསུམ (tong sum)
4,000 (༤༠༠༠) སྟོང་​བཞི་​ (tong shi)
5,000 (༥༠༠༠) སྟོང་​ལྔ་​ (tong nga)
6,000 (༦༠༠༠) སྟོང་​དྲུག་​ (tong trug)
7,000 (༧༠༠༠) སྟོང་​བདུན་​ (tong dün)
8,000 (༨༠༠༠) སྟོང་​པརྒྱད་​ (tong gyay)
9,000 (༩༠༠༠) སྟོང་​དགུ་​ (tong gu)
10,000 (༡༠༠༠༠) ཁྲི་​ (khri) [ʈ͡ʂʰi˥˥]
1 million (༡༠༠༠༠༠༠) ས་​ཡ་​ (sa ya) [sa˥˥.ja˥˥]
10 million (༡༠༠༠༠༠༠༠) བྱེ་​བ་​ (bye ba) [t͡ɕʰi˩˧.wə˥˥]
100 million (༡༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠) དུང་​ཕྱུར་​ (dung phyur) [tʰuŋ˩˧.t͡ɕʰuː(ɹ)˥˥]
1 billion (༡༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠) ཐེར་​འབུམ་​ (ther 'bum) [tʰiŋ˥˥.pum˥˥]
10 billion (༡༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠) ཐེར་​འབུམ་​ཆེན་​པོ་​ (ther 'bum chen po)
100 billion (༡༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠) ཁྲག་​ཁྲིག་​ (khrag khrig)
1 trillion (༡༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠) ཁྲག་​ཁྲིག་​ཆེན་​པོ་​ (khrag khrig chen po)

Hear the numbers 1-100 in Tibetan

Information about counting in Tibetan

https://www.slideshare.net/Zefortiche/how-to-count-in-tibetan
https://quizlet.com/122877688/tibetan-ordinal-numbers-flash-cards/
https://www.facebook.com/stepbysteptibetan/posts/1526993350921467

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