Use of the irregular numerals in Nepali
It is very hard to learn how to count in Nepali, since there is no regularity
in Nepali numerals and you need to memorize each number one by one.
For instance, “one”, “two” and “three” in
Japanese (“ichi”, “ni” and “san”), which is the subject, Risa’s native
language, are correlated with the numbers in the tenth place, i.e. “eleven”, “twelve”
and “thirteen” which are “juu-ichi”, “juu-ni” and “juu-san” in Japanese (“juu”
indicates “ten”), which makes it easy to memorize. However, “one”, “two” and “three”
in Nepali are “ek”, “dui” and “tin” while “eleven”, “twelve” and “thirteen” are
respectively “egara”, “bara” and “tera”; thus there is no regularity there which
makes it harder to memorize.
Rataraju uttered spontaneously three numbers in Nepali, “tis (30)”, “pachs (25)” and “ath satori (8 and 70 meaning 78)” . We believe the fact that he was able to utter these complex numbers can be admitted as a convincing evidence that a Nepalese personality called Rataraju indeed appeared and made a conversation in Nepali.
<To be continued>
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