• P. Madhubala

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Mao is a language of the Naga-Kuki groups of Tibeto-Burman language family and spoken
mainly in the Senapati district, the Northern part of Manipur. The Speaker of Mao language is
known as Mao. This paper is attempted to study about the Mao numeral system. Like other
Tibeto-Burman language, Mao also has decimal numeral systems. Generally, numeral is a word
denoting a number. It can be considered as an integral part of a language which is used in
everyday life and mainly in higher mathematics also. The way of constructing higher number
system is of multiplication and addition type. The Mao numeral can be classified as Cardinal,
Ordinal, Multiplicative, Aggregative, Approximate, Fractional, Indefinite and Restrictive. But
cardinal numbers have more complex and more formal structure than ordinal numbers.

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