Manda

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Manda is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. It is very small, having only 4,000 speakers, and is at risk of extinction due to all speakers being bilingual with the much larger Odia.

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

Number Romanisation IPA
0 //
1 ru, ro /ɾu/, /ɾo/
2 ri/duy /ɾi/, /d̪uj/
3 tīn /t̪iːn/
4 sāri /saːɾi/
5 pāso /paːso/
6 so /so/
7 sāto /saːt̪o/
8 āṭ /aːʈ/
9 no /no/
10 dos /d̪os/

Source: Manda-English Dictionary by B. Ramakrishna Reddy

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