How to count in Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ), a South Tibetic language spoken in Bhutan.
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| Numeral | Cardinal numbers | Ordinal numbers |
|---|---|---|
| 0 (༠ ) | legkor | |
| 1 (༡) | གཅིག་ (chi) [ciː] | (dangpa) |
| 2 (༢) | གཉིས། (nyi) [ˈɲiː] | (ngepa) |
| 3 (༣) | གསུས་ (sum) [sum] | (sumpa) |
| 4 (༤) | (zhi) [ʑi] | (zhipa) |
| 5 (༥) | (nga) [ˈŋa] | (ngapa) |
| 6 (༦) | (dru) [ɖʱuː] | (dhupa) |
| 7 (༧) | (duen) [dyn] | (duenpa) |
| 8 (༨) | (gay) [ɡeː] | |
| 9 (༩) | (gu) [gu] | |
| 10 (༡༠) | (chu tham) [cu-tʰãm] | |
| 11 (༡༡) | (chu chi) [cu-ci] | |
| 12 (༡༢) | (chu nyi) [cu-ɲi] | |
| 13 (༡༣) | (chu sum) [cu-sum] | |
| 14 (༡༤) | (chu zhi) [cu-ʑi ] | |
| 15 (༡༥) | (che nga) [ce-ŋa] | |
| 16 (༡༦) | (chu du) [cu-ɖu] | |
| 17 (༡༧) | (chup dü) [cup-dỹ] | |
| 18 (༡༨) | (chop gay) [cop-ɡe] | |
| 19 (༡༩) | (chü gu) [cy-ɡu] | |
| 20 (༢༠) | (khe chi) [kʰe ciː] | |
| 21 (༢༡) | (nyer chi) | |
| 22 (༢༢) | (nyer nyi) | |
| 23 (༢༣) | (nyer sum) | |
| 24 (༢༤) | (nyer zhi) | |
| 25 (༢༥) | (nyer nga) | |
| 26 (༢༦) | (nyer dru) | |
| 27 (༢༧) | (nyer duen) | |
| 28 (༢༨) | (nyer gay) | |
| 29 (༢༩) | (nyer gu) | |
| 30 (༣༠) | [kʰe pɟʱe-da ˈɲiː] | |
| 40 (༤༠) | [kʰe ˈɲiː] | |
| 50 (༥༠) | [kʰe pɟʱe-da sum] | |
| 60 (༦༠) | (trug chu) | |
| 70 (༧༠) | (dün ju) | |
| 80 (༨༠) | ||
| 90 (༩༠) | ||
| 100 (༡༠༠) | [kʰe ˈŋa] | |
| 200 (༢༠༠) | [kʰe cutʰãm] | |
| 300 (༣༠༠) | [kʰe ceŋa] |
Hear some numbers in Dzongkha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzongkha_numerals
https://wikitravel.org/en/Dzongkha_phrasebook
If you would like to make any corrections or additions to this page, or if you can provide recordings, please contact me.
Information about Dzongkha | Phrases | Numbers
Dzongkha, Ladakhi, Sherpa, Tibetan
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