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
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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