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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.
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