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c. ८३ तेरासी/ितरासी /te/ti-r-ɑsi/ three and eighty 'eighty-three'

d. ८४ चौरासी/चउरासी /cɔ/cʌu-r-ɑsi/ four and eighty 'eighty-four'

e. ८५ पचासी /pʌc-ɑsi/ five and eighty 'eighty-five'

f. ८६ िछआसी/छेआसी /cʰi/che-ɑsi/ six and eighty 'eighty-six'
g. ८७ सतासी /sʌt-ɑsi/ seven and eighty 'eighty-seven'

h. ८८ अठासी /ʌʈʰ-ɑsi/ eight and eighty 'eighty-eight'

i. ८९ नवासी /nɔ-ɑsi/ nine and eighty 'eighty-nine'

j. ९० नlबे /nʌbbe/ nine tens 'nʌbbe'

k. ९१ एकानबे /ek-ɑ-nbe/ one and ninety 'ninety-one'
l. ९२ बानबे /bɑ-nbe/ two and ninety 'ninety-two'

m. ९३ ितरानबे /ti-rɑ-nbe/ three and ninety 'ninety-three'

n. ९४ चउरानबे /cʌu-rɑ-nbe/ four and ninety 'ninety-four'

o. ९५ पंचानबे /pʌnc-ɑ-nbe/ five and ninety 'ninety-five'

p. ९६ िछआनबे/छेआनबे /cʰi/che-ɑ-nbe/ six and ninety 'ninety-six'

q. ९७ संतानबे /sʌnt-ɑ-nbe/ seven and ninety 'ninety-seven'

r. ९८ अंठानबे /ʌnʈʰ-ɑ-nbe/ eight and ninety 'ninety-eight'
s. ९९ िननानबे /nin-ɑ-nbe/ nine and ninety 'ninety-nine'

t. १०० सै/सौ /sɛ/ or /sɔ/ ten tens 'hundred'

Though the standard counting of the cardinals occurs in Bhojpuri from 1 to
100, the illiterate people still count only from 1 to 20. Therefore, they express 40, 60,
80 and 100 as दू बीस /du bis/ 'two twenties', तीन बीस /tin bis/ 'three twenties', चार बीस

/cɑr bis/ 'four twenties' and पाँच बीस /pɑc bis/ 'five twenties' respectively.
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Similarly, they count down the cardinals less than 20 in terms of एक कम /ek kʌm/

'one less than', दू कम /du kʌm/ 'two less than' and so on. So, 18 is expressed as दू कम बीस /du
kʌm bis/ 'two less than twenty' and 19 as एक कम बीस /ek kʌm bis/ 'one less than twenty'.

In the languages of the world, one can find unit+ten and ten+unit order
commonly. When we observe counting system in Bhojpuri, the examples (41-48)

expresses that the former order is maintained upto eight units after each ten upto अंठानबे

/ʌnʈʰɑnbe/ 'ninety-eight' but the nineth unit after each ten is in the order of one less than

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