How to count in Sgaw Karen (ကညီကျိာ်), a Karenic language spoken in southern Myannmar and northwestern Thailand.
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| Numeral | Cardinal numbers |
|---|---|
| 1 (၁) | တ (ta), တၢ (tuh) [tɛ́j] |
| 2 (၂) | ခံ (khee) [kʰí] |
| 3 (၃) | သၢ (thuh) |
| 4 (၄) | လွံၢ် (lwee̱) [lwì] |
| 5 (၅) | ယဲၢ် (yeẖ) [jɛ̀] |
| 6 (၆) | ဃု (xu) [kʰú] |
| 7 (၇) | နွံ (nwee) [nwí] |
| 8 (၈) | ဃိး (xoḧ) [kʰo̰] |
| 9 (၉) | ခွံ (khwee) [kʰwí] |
| 10 (၁၀) | ဆံ (hsee), တဆံ (ta hsee) [ta̰sʰí] |
| 11 (၁၁) | တဆံတၢ (ta hsee tuh) |
| 12 (၁၂) | တဆံခံ (ta hsee khee) |
| 13 (၁၃) | တဆံသၢ (ta hsee thuh) |
| 14 (၁၄) | တဆံလွံၢ် (ta hsee lwee̱) |
| 15 (၁၅) | တဆံယဲၢ် (ta hsee yeẖ) |
| 16 (၁၆) | တဆံဃု (ta hsee xu) |
| 17 (၁၇) | တဆံနွံ (ta hsee nwee) |
| 18 (၁၈) | တဆံဃိး (ta hsee xoḧ) |
| 19 (၁၉) | တဆံခွံ (ta hsee khwee) |
| 20 (၂၀) | ခံဆံ (khee hsee) |
| 30 (၃၀) | သၢဆံ (thuh hsee) |
| 40 (၄၀) | လွံၢ်ဆံ (lwee hsee̱) |
| 50 (၅၀) | ဟဲၢ်ဆံ (ye hsee) |
| 60 (၆၀) | ဃုဆံ (xu hsee) |
| 70 (၇၀) | နွံဆံ (nwee hsee) |
| 80 (၈၀) | ဃိးဆံ (xo hsee) |
| 90 (၉၀) | ခွံဆံ (khwee hsee) |
| 100 (၁၀၀) | ကယၤ (ka yā), တကယၤ (ta ka yā) |
| 1,000 (၁၀၀၀) | တကထိ (ta ka tho) |
Hear some Sgaw Karen numbers
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Information about numbers in Sgaw Karen
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Sgaw Karen_numerals
Information about S'gaw Karen | Numbers | Tower of Babel
Eastern Pwo Karen, Red Karen (West Kayah), Sgaw Karen
Alphabetical index | Language family index
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