Wednesday 24 March 2010

Numbers 1

The numbers in Hakka are:

一 yit⁵ one
二 ngi⁴ two
三 sam¹ three
四 si⁴ four
五 ng³ five
六 liuk⁵/luk⁵ six
七 cit⁵ seven
八 bat⁵ eight
九 giu³ nine

零 lang² zero
十 sip⁶ ten
百 bak⁵ hundred
千 cien¹ thousand
萬 van⁴ ten thousand
億 yit⁶ hundred thousand

When you place 第 ti⁴ in front of a number, it makes them into an ordinal number. For instance,

第一 ti⁴ yit⁵ first
第二 ti⁴ ngi⁴ second
第三 ti⁴ sam¹ third

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