Mangbetu

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Mangbetu is a Central SUdanic language spoken in the northeast of D.R. Congo. It has around 600,000 speakers, a rich phonemic inventory, and no script.

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

Number Romanisation IPA
0 //
1 /kana/
2 /sóóru/
3 /sɔ́ta/
4 /sɔ́sua/
5 /sɔ́zɛrɛna/
6 /ɛ́tɛ́ana/
7 /ɛ́tɛ́ana nêgikana/
8 /ɓoɔgina/
9 /ɓɔgina ándrandro/
10 /tɛ́v̱ɛ́/

Mangbetu seems to have once been a base-5 numeral system, however, this seems to have changed and it now appears base-10.

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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