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 | ༡༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠ | ཁྲག་ཁྲིག་ (khrag khrig) | |
| 1 trillion | ༡༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠ | 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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