• Elangbam Sharatkumar Singh

  Author

This paper highlights the numeral system in Hmar. Hmar belongs to Tibeto-Burman
language family (Grierson, 1904). Hmar is one of the government recognized language in
Manipur. It has SOV word order and different word classes are formed by affixation.
In this paper, cardinal numerals, distributive numerals, multiplicative numerals,
approximative numerals and fractional numerals are discussed in detail. In the cardinal numeral
system two types – cardinal number and ordinal numeral are also mentioned. Cardinal number
can also be divided into two as - basic numerals and compound numerals. There are 13
(thirteen) basic cardinal numbers as /pəkh
ət/ ‘one’, /pəhni/ ‘two’, /pəthum/ ‘three’, /pəli/ ‘four’,
/pəŋa/ ‘five’, /pəruk/ ‘six’, /pəsəri/ ‘seven’, /pəriet/ ‘eight’, /pəkuo/ ‘nine’, /som/ ‘ten’, /jakh
ət/
‘hundred’, /saŋkh
ət/ ‘thousand’ and /nuoi/ ‘lakh’. In the compound numeral system, three types
of - (a) Additive compound (b) Multiplicative compound and (c) Multiplicative-cum-additive
compound can be analysed.

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