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Basic Primary Numerals :

ddo	‘half’
po	‘three quarters’
swa	‘one and a quarter’
e	‘one and a half’
ţài	‘two and a half’
ek	‘one’
do	‘two’
tr€	‘three’
car	‘four’
pnj	‘five’
che	‘six’
st	‘seven’
h	‘eight’
n	‘nine’
ds	‘ten’
s	‘hundred’
jar	‘thousand’
lkh	‘lakh’

Other Cardinal Numerals

Other numerals are formed with the help of these basic numerals with their alternant or with their combinations. Up to two and half (2½) there is a basic numeral /ţài/ but beyond this if we have to form the numerals such as 3½, 4½ etc., then /saa/ is added to the numeral like /saa tr€/ ‘three and a half’ (3½), /sa·a car/ ‘four and a half’ (4½), /saa tr€ s/ ‘three hundred and fifty (350), /saa car s/ ‘four hundred and fifty’ (45), but

ài s	‘two hundred and fifty’ (25)
e s	‘one hundred and fifty’ (150)
e jar	‘one thousand five hundred’ (1500)
pa tr€	‘quarter to three’(2¾)
pa do s	‘one hundred and seventy five’ (175)
swa do	‘two and a quarter’ (2¼)
swa s	‘one hundred and twenty five’ (125)
swa do s	‘two hundred and twenty five’ (225)

Following are the alternants of the cardinal numerals:

Alternanats of ‘one’

ek	‘one’
Ikk-	as in	Ikkí	‘twenty one’
Ik-	as in	Iktri	‘thirty one’
		Iktai	‘forty one’
		Ikaţh	‘sixty one’
		Ikanm€	‘ninety one’
ya-	as in	yarã	‘eleven’

Alternants of ‘two’

do	‘two’
ba-	as in	barã	‘twelve’
		baţh	‘sixty two’
		basi	‘eighty two’
b	as in	btri	‘thirty two’
		btai	‘forty two’
		bwnja	‘fifty two’
		bttr	‘seventy two’

Alternants of ‘three’

tr€

‘three’

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