Lendu

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Lendu is a Central Sudanic language spoken in the northeast of D.R. Congo. It is one of the most populous Central Sudanic languages and has around 750,000 speakers. It has no script.

Here are the numbers from zero to ten translated in Lendu:

Number Romanisation IPA
0 //
1 /ɗi/, /ôɗú/
2 /ârô/, /ôyô/
3 /gbô/, /iɓú/
4 /thô/, /i̹fó/, /u̹fó/
5 /mbû̱/, /ímbó/
6 /âzâ/
7 /aru/, /aru̹/
8 /arugbó/, /ârûɓu/
9 /drêdhî/, /ârdyeɗí/
10 /drê/, /î̹drê/

Source: "Bibliographie et matériaux lexicaux des langues Moru-Mangbetu (Soudan-Central, Zaïre)" by Moiso Bokula and Agozia-Kario Irumu via Wiktionary

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