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Bangla numbers 1 to 100

Bangla is the hard case. Most languages build ninety-nine out of nine and ninety; Bangla gives all hundred numbers a word of their own, and the words only half derive from their parts.

There is a system, though, and it is visible a decade at a time: each ten shares a suffix, the unit word deforms differently inside each one, and almost every nine is built as one less than the ten above it. The ten pages below take one decade each. The digits themselves — ০ through ৯ — are a separate subject and live with the letters.

Every number in one grid

Above a hundred, Bangla groups digits differently from English and has no word in current use for a million — see hundreds, thousands, লাখ and কোটি. For prices and clock time you also need the half and quarter words.