Atong

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Atong is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by a few thousand people in Meghalaya, India. It is written in the Latin or Bengali scripts, and almost all speakers are bilingual in Garo, which is considered more prestigious.

Here are the numbers zero to ten written in Atong:

Number Latin Script IPA
0 //
1 (rong) sa /(roŋ) sa/
2 (rong) ni /(roŋ) ni/
3 (rong) tham /(roŋ) tʰam/
4 (rong) byryi /(roŋ) bərəj/
5 (rong) banga /(roŋ) baŋa/
6 (rong) korok /(roŋ) korok/
7 (rong) sene /(roŋ) ɕene/
8 (rong) chatgyk /(roŋ) t͡ɕatgək/
9 (rong) chykhyw /(roŋ) t͡ɕəkʰəw/
10 (rong) chyigyk /(roŋ) t͡ɕəjgək/

Sources: Atong Spelling Guide and A Grammar of Atong by Seino van Breugel

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