How to count in Sikkimese (འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་), a Southern Tibetic language spoken in Sikkim in northeastern India, and in eastern Nepal.
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| Numeral | Cardinal numbers | Ordinal numbers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 (༠) | ཀླད་ཀྔོར་ [lɛ̃́kor] | |
| 1 (༡) | གཅིག་ (ci) [tɕiʔ] | དང་པྔོ་ [tʽaŋpo] |
| 2 (༢) | གཉིས་ [ɲíː] | |
| 3 (༣)) | གསུམ་ ་ (sum) [súm] | གསུམ་པྔོ་ [súm-po] |
| 4 (༤) | བཞི་ (zhi) [ʑi] | |
| 5 (༥) | ལྔ་ [ŋá], ང (nga) [ŋɐ] | |
| 6 (༦) | དྲུག [ʈʽuʔ/ʈʽuk] | |
| 7 (༧) | བདུན་ [dyn] | |
| 8 (༨) | བརྒྱད་ (ge') [gɛʔ], གྱེ (gye) | |
| 9 (༩) | དགུ་ [gu] | |
| 10 (༡༠) | བཅུ་(ཐམ་བ་) [tɕu(tʰamba)] | |
| 11 (༡༡) | བཅུ་གཅིག་ [tɕuktɕiʔ] | |
| 12 (༡༢) | བཅུ་གཉིས་ [tɕuːɲiː] | |
| 13 (༡༣) | བཅུ་གསུམ་ [tɕuksum] | |
| 14 (༡༤) | བཅུ་བཞི་ [tɕipʑi] | |
| 15 (༡༥) | བཅྔོ་ལྔ་ [tɕɛːŋa] | |
| 16 (༡༦) | བཅུ་དྲུག་ [tɕuːrup] | |
| 17 (༡༧) | བཅྔོ་བདུན་ [tɕopdyn] | |
| 18 (༡༨) | བཅྔོ་བརྒྱད་ [tɕopgɛʔ] | |
| 19 (༡༩) | བཅུ་དགུ་ [tɕu:gu] | |
| 20 (༢༠) | ཉི་ཤུ་(ཐམ་བ་) [ɲíɕu(tʰamba)] | |
| 21 (༢༡) | རྕ་གཅགི་ [tsa-tɕiʔ], ཉི་ཤུ་རྕ་གཅིག་ [ɲíɕu tsa-tɕiʔ] | |
| 22 (༢༢) | རྕ་གཉིས་ [tsa-ɲiː], ཉི་ཤུ་རྕ་གཉིས་ [ɲíɕu tsa-ɲiː] | |
| 23 (༢༣)) | རྕ་གསུམ་ [tsa-sum], ཉི་ཤུ་རྕ་གསུམ་ [ɲíɕu tsa-sum] | |
| 24 (༢༤) | རྕ་བཞི་ [tsa-ʑi], ཉི་ཤུ་རྕ་བཞི་ [ɲíɕu tsa-ʑi] | |
| 25 (༢༥) | རྕ་ལྔ་ [tsa-ŋa], ཉི་ཤུ་རྕ་ལྔ་ [ɲíɕu tsa-ŋa] | |
| 26 (༢༦) | རྕ་དྲུག [tsa-ʈʽuʔ], ཉི་ཤུ་རྕ་དྲུག་ [ɲíɕu tsa-ʈʽuʔ] | |
| 27 (༢༧) | རྕ་བདུན་ [tsa-dyn], ཉི་ཤུ་རྕ་བདུན་ [ɲíɕu tsa-dyn] | |
| 28 (༢༨) | རྕ་བརྒྱད་ [tsa-gɛʔ], ཉི་ཤུ་རྕ་བརྒྱད་ [ɲíɕu tsa-gɛʔ] | |
| 29 (༢༩) | རྕ་དགུ་ [tsa-gu], ཉི་ཤུ་རྕ་དགུ་ [ɲíɕu tsa-gu] | |
| 30 (༣༠) | གསུམ་བཅུ་ [súmtɕu] | |
| 40 (༤༠) | བཞི་བཅུ་ [ʑiptɕu] | |
| 50 (༥༠) | ལྔ་བཅུ་ [ŋáptɕu] | |
| 60 (༦༠) | དྲུག་བཅུ་ [ʈʽuktɕu] | |
| 70 (༧༠) | བདུན་བཅུ་ [dyntɕu] | |
| 80 (༨༠) | བརྒྱད་བཅུ་ [gɛtɕu] | |
| 90 (༩༠) | དགུ་བཅུ་ [guptɕu] | |
| 100 (༡༠༠) | གཅིག་བརྒྱ་ [tɕik gja], བརྒྱ་གཅིག་ [gja tɕiʔ] | |
| 1,000 (༢༠༠༠) | སྟོང་(ཕྲག་) [tõː(ʈʰaʔ)] | |
| 10,000 (༢༠༠༠༠) | ཁྲི་ [ʈʰi] | |
| 100,000 (༢༠༠༠༠༠) | འབུམ་ [bum] | |
| 1,000,000 (༢༠༠༠༠༠༠) | ས་ཡ་ [sája] |
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Sikkimese_numerals
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356363935_A_descriptive_grammar_of_Denjongke
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