Pulak taught me some Bangla today, some of the numbers. These are my phonetic spellings of the sounds.
1. eck
2. dui
3. thin
4. char
5. patch
6. choi
7. shat
8. at
9. noi
10. dosh.
10. dosh.
15. ponero
20. bisch
25. pochish
30. trish
35. po-i-trish
40. cholish
45. po cholish
50 ponchash
55 ponchanno
100's add the word 'show' after the numbers 1-10 e.g. ' char - show' - 400. ' eck -show', 'dui show'
1000's add' hazar' after the number e.g. 'char hazar' - 4000.
I tried learning to write some Bangla too but didnt get far, there are many more vowels and consonants than in the Roman alphabet. I learnt the words for some of the metals....
Steel - Is-pat
Zinc - Jink
Gold - Shona
Silver - Rupa
Brass - Pitol
Tin - Tin
Copper - Tama
