How to count in Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ), a South Tibetic language spoken in Bhutan.
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Numeral | Cardinal numbers | Ordinal numbers |
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0 (༠ ) | ཀླད་ཀོར (klad kor) [le˥.ko˥], ཐིག (thig) [tʰik̚˥] | |
1 (༡) | གཅིག (gcig), / ཆཱི (cig) [t͡ɕik̚˥] | དང་པ (dang pa) |
2 (༢) | གཉིས (gnyis) [njiː˥], ཉྱཱི (nyi) | གཉིས་པ (gnyis pa) |
3 (༣) | གསུམ (gsum) [sum˥], སུམ (sum) | གསུམ་པ (gsum pa) |
4 (༤) | བཞི (bzhi) [ʑi˩], ཞི (zhi) | བཞི་པ (bzhi pa) |
5 (༥) | ལྔ (lnga) [ŋɑ˥], ང (nga) | ལྔ་པ (lnga pa) |
6 (༦) | དྲུག (drug) [ʈʰuk̚˩], ཌཱུ (dru) | དྲུག་པ (drug pa) |
7 (༧) | བདུན (bdun) [tyːn˩], དྱཱུན (duen) | བདུན་པ (bdun pa) |
8 (༨) | བརྒྱད (brgyad), གཻ (gay) | |
9 (༩) | གཱུ (gu) | |
10 (༡༠) | ཅུཐཱམ (chu tham) | |
11 (༡༡) | ཅུཅི (chu chi) [cu-ci] | |
12 (༡༢) | ཅུཉི (chu nyi) [cu-ɲi] | |
13 (༡༣) | ཅུསུམ (chu sum) [cu-sum] | |
14 (༡༤) | ཅུཞི (chu zhi) [cu-ʑi ] | |
15 (༡༥) | ཅེངཱ (che nga) [ce-ŋa] | |
16 (༡༦) | ཅུཌུ (chu du) [cu-ɖu] | |
17 (༡༧) | ཅུཔྡྱ (chup dü) [cup-dỹ] | |
18 (༡༨) | ཅོཔྒེ (chop gay) [cop-ɡe] | |
19 (༡༩) | ཅྱགུ (chü gu) [cy-ɡu] | |
20 (༢༠) | (khe chi) [kʰe ciː] | |
21 (༢༡) | ཁེཆཱི (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
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Dzongkha_numerals
If you would like to make any corrections or additions to this page, or if you can provide recordings, please contact me.
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