How to count in Eastern Pwo Karen (ဖၠုံ), a Karenic language spoken in Myanmar and Thailand.
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| Numeral | Cardinal numbers |
|---|---|
| 0 (၀) | ပၠဝ်ပၠေ (ploh plih) |
| 1 (၁) | လ်ု (luh) |
| 2 (၂) | ဏီ့ (nee) |
| 3 (၃) | သိုငၲ့ (thuh) |
| 4 (၄) | လီႉ (lee) |
| 5 (၅) | ယဲါ (yeh) |
| 6 (၆) | ၰူ့ (hu) |
| 7 (၇) | နိူဲ့ (nwey) |
| 8 (၈) | ၰိုဝၲ (xoh) |
| 9 (၉) | ခိုဲႉ (khwee) |
| 10 (၁၀) | လ်ုဆီ့ (luh chi) |
| 11 (၁၁) | ဆီ့လ်ု (chi luh) |
| 12 (၂) | ဆီ့ဏီ့ (chi ne) |
| 13 (၁၃) | ဆီ့သိုငၲ့ (chi thuh) |
| 14 (၁၄) | ဆီ့လီႉ (chi lee) |
| 15 (၁၅) | ဆီ့ယဲါ (chi yeh) |
| 16 (၁၆) | ဆီ့ၰူ့ (chi hu) |
| 17 (၁၇) | ဆီ့နိူဲ့ (chi nwey) |
| 18 (၁၈) | ဆီ့ၰိုဝၲ (chi xoh) |
| 19 (၁၉) | ဆီ့ခိုဲႉ (chi khwee) |
| 20 (၂၀) | ဏီ့ဆီ့ (ne chi) |
| 21 (၂၁) | ဏီ့ဆီ့လ်ု (ne chi luh) |
| 22 (၂၂) | ဏီ့ဆီ့ဏီ့ (ne chi ne) |
| 30 (၃၀) | သိုငၲ့ဆီ့ (thuh chi) |
| 40 (၄၀) | လီႉဆီ့ (lee chi) |
| 50 (၅၀) | ယဲါဆီ့ (yeh chi) |
| 60 (၆၀) | ၰူ့ဆီ့ (hu chi) |
| 70 (၇၀) | နိူဲ့ဆီ့ (nwey chi) |
| 80 (၈၀) | ၰိုဝၲဆီ့ (xoh chi) |
| 90 (၉၀) | ခိုဲႉဆီ့ (khwee chi) |
| 100 (၁၀၀) | လ်ုဖငၲႉလ်ု (luh pong luh ) |
| 1000 (၁၀၀၀) | လ်ုမိုငၲ့ (luh muh) |
| 10000 (၁၀၀၀၀) | လ်ုလါ (luh lah) |
| 100000 (၁၀၀၀၀၀) | လ်ုသိငၲႉ (luh thay) |
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Information about numbers in Eastern Pwo Karen
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Eastern_Pwo_numerals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Pwo_language#History
Information about Eastern Pwo Karen | Leke Script for Eastern Pwo Karen | Numbers
Eastern Pwo Karen, Red Karen (West Kayah), Sgaw Karen
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