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the other ten as उनइस /unʌis/ '19=20-1 or one less than twenty' ... ... upto उनासी /unɑsi/

'79=80-1 or one less than eighty'. But नवासी /nʌwɑsi/ '89=9+80 or nine and eithty' and

िननानबे /ninɑnbe/ '99=9+90 or nine and ninety' again retain the former one.
Cardinal numerals above hundred

Above hundred, the order is certainly the bigger first, i.e., the same numerals
from एक /ek/ 'one' to िननानबे /ninɑnbe/ 'ninety-nine' are repeated up to each next

hundred. But Bhojpuri has its unique way of counting alternatively from 101 in the

reverse order as we observed up to a greater extent, especially used for learning
multiple tables of 11 onwards. The higher number is subjoined to the lower one with
which it is compounded by means of -उ#र /-uttʌr/ 'above' and this morphological

process continues for 101 to 118, as shown in (49).

(49) a. १०१ एको#र सै /ek-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'one above hundred for 101'

b. १०२ 6दलो#र सै /di-l-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'two above hundred for 102'

c. १०३ ितलो#र सै /ti-l-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'three above hundred for 103'
d. १०४ चलो#र सै /cʌ-l-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'four above hundred for 104'

e. १०५ पँचो#र सै /pʌc-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'five above hundred for 105'
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f. १०६ छहो#र सै /cʰʌɦ-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'six above hundred for 106'

g. १०७ सतो#र सै /sʌt-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'seven above hundred for 107'

h. १०८ अठो#र सै /ʌʈʰ-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'eight above hundred for 108'
i. १०९ नवो#र सै /nʌw-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'nine above hundred for 109'

j. ११० दहो#र सै /dʌɦ-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'ten above hundred for 110'

k. १११ एगरो#र सै /eɡʌr-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'eleven above hundred for 111'

l. ११२ बलो#र सै /bʌ-l-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'twelve above hundred for 112'

m. ११३ तेरो#र सै /ter-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'thirteen above hundred for 113'

n. ११४ चउदो#र सै /cʌud-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'fourteen above hundred for 114'

o. ११५ पंmो#र सै /pʌndr-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'fifteen above hundred for 115'
p. ११६ सोरो#र सै /sor-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'sixteen above hundred for 116'

q. ११७ सतरो#र सै /sʌtʌr-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'seventeen above hundred for 117'

r. ११८ अठरो#र सै /ʌʈʰʌr-ottʌr-sɛ/ 'eighteen above hundred for 118'

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