Numerals
Sinhala shares many features common to other Indo-European languages. Shared vocabulary includes the numbers up to ten:
Numeral | Sinhala | Konkani | Sanskrit | Greek | Latin | Portuguese | German | English | French | Spanish | Russian | Italian | Latvian |
1 | eka (එක) | ēk | éka | ena | unus | um | eins | one | un | uno | odin | uno | viens |
2 | deka (දෙක) | dōn | dvá | dúo | duo | dois | zwei | two | deux | dos | dva | due | divi |
3 | thuna (තුන) | tīn | trí | treĩs | tria | três | drei | three | trois | tres | tri | tre | trīs |
4 | hathara (හතර) | cār | catúr | téssera | quattuor | quatro | vier | four | quatre | cuatro | chetyre | quattro | četri |
5 | paha (පහ) | pānc | páñca | pénte | quinque | cinco | fünf | five | cinq | cinco | pyat' | cinque | pieci |
6 | haya (හය) | sa | ṣaṭ | éxi | sex | seis | sechs | six | six | seis | shest' | sei | seši |
7 | hatha (හත) | sāt | saptá | eptá | septem | sete | sieben | seven | sept | siete | sem' | sette | septiņi |
8 | aṭa (අට) | āṭ | aṣṭá | októ | octo | oito | acht | eight | huit | ocho | vosem' | otto | astoņi |
9 | navaya (නවය) | ṇav | náva | ennéa | novem | nove | neun | nine | neuf | nueve | devyat' | nove | deviņi |
10 | dahaya (දහය) | dha | dáça | déka | decem | dez | zehn | ten | dix | diez | desyat' | dieci | desmit |
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