Pangkhua

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Pangkhua is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by a few thousand people in Bangladesh, but also has an unknown population in India. It doesn't have a script.

Here are the numbers zero to ten written in Pangkhua:

Number Romanisation IPA
0 //
1 khakka /kʰakːa/
2 pnika /pnika/
3 thumka /tʰumka/
4 lika /lika/
5 rɨngaka /rɨŋaka/
6 pəruk /pəruk/
7 šerika /ʃərika/
8 ria̯tka /ria̯tka/
9 kuakka /kua̯kːa/
10 šomka /ʃomka/

Source: "The Kuki-Chin Communities of Bangladesh: A sociolinguistic survey" by Amy Kim, Palash Roy, and Mridul Sangma, language 2 in wordlist

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