Punjabi/Vocabulary/Numbers

__NOTOC__ Numbers This session is devoted to learning numbers from one to twenty. First ten numbers are all irregular as is the case in English and will be learnt by memorizing to help in spotting the linguistic patterns in later numbers. Once you have learnt the first ten numbers you will be shown their correspondence with the next ten. ਇੱਕ,ਹਿੱਕ = one ਦੋ, = two ਤਰੈ, ਤਰੇ= three ਚਾਰ = four ਪੰਜ, = five ਛੇ, ਸ਼ੀਹ = six ਸੱਤ = seven ਅੱਠ = eight ਨੌਂ = nine ਦਸ,ਦਾਹ = ten So you have learnt the first ten numbers in Punjabi. The interesting part realy begins now. As with English numbers one and eleven, ਇਕ and ਗਿਆਰਾਂ have no linguistic similarity. Absence of any linguistic similarity between ਦੋ and ਬਾਰਾਂ contrasts with presence of such similarity in English between two and twelve. But then onward until nineteen corresponding pairs have similarity in both Punjabi and English. Now examine the following numbers and observe the strikingly similar features of Punjabi and English. <li>ਯਾਰਾਂ = eleven <li>ਬਾਰਾਂ = twelve <li>ਤੇਰਾਂ = thirteen <li>ਚੌਦਾਂ = fourteen <li>ਪੰਦਰਾਂ = fifteen <li>ਸੋਲ਼ਾਂ = sixteen <li>ਸਤਾਰਾਂ = seventeen <li>ਅਠਾਰਾਂ = eighteen <li>ਉਨੀ = nineteen <li>ਵੀਹ = twenty Similar linguistic patterns exist for numbers up to ninety nine. Thereafter numbers get repeated both in English and Punjabi. For a more detailed information go to Appendix 2 : Numbers