Brahui

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Brahui is a Dravidian language mostly spoken in Balochistan, Pakistan. Due to it being isolated from other Dravidian languages and being surrounded by Indo-Iranic languages, it has picked up a lot of vocabulary from Indo-Iranic, which can be seen in its numbers. Only numbers from one to three resemble other Dravidian languages.

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

Number Romanisation Brahui Numeral Brahui Name IPA
0 sonne ٠ صِفر //
1 asiṭ ١ اسِٹ /asiʈ/
2 irāṭ ٢ اِرٹ /iɾaʈ/
3 musiṭ ٣ مسٹ, مُسہ /musiʈ/, /musi/
4 čār ٤ چار /t͡ʃaːɾ/
5 panč ٥ پنچ /pant͡ʃ/
6 šaš ٦ شش /ʃaʃ/
7 haft ٧ ہفت /haft/
8 hašt ٨ ہشت /haʃt/
9 ٩ نو /noː/
10 dah ١٠ دہ /dah/

Source: Brahui Numerals on Wiktionary

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