2 Can be abbreviated to in list contexts, such as telephone numbers. Spoken Burmese has innate pronunciation rules that govern numbers when they are combined with another word, be it a numerical place or a measure word.
For one, two, and seven, when combined, shift to an open vowel, namely the schwa
For three, four, five, and nine which all have the long tone, when combined, the word immediately following it, given that it begins with a consonant, shifts to a voiced consonant. Other suffixes such as , , , and all shift to,,, respectively.
For six and eight, no pronunciation shift occurs.
These pronunciation shifts are exclusively confined to spoken Burmese and are not spelt any differently.
Ten to a million
1 Shifts to voiced consonant following three, four, five, and nine. 2 Athinche sometimes could mean "too large to be counted". Ten to nineteen are almost always expressed without including . Another pronunciation rule shifts numerical place name from the low tone to the creaky tone.
Number places from 10 up to 107 has increment of 101. Beyond those Number places, larger number places have increment of 107. 1014 up to 10140 has increment of 107.
There are totally 27 major number places in Burmese numerals from 1×100 to 10140
Numbers in the tens place: shift from to , except in numbers divisible by ten In typical speech, the shift goes farther to.
Numbers in the thousands place: shift from to , except for numbers divisible by 1000.
Hence, a number like 301 is pronounced , while 300 is pronounced . The digits of a number are expressed in order of decreasing digits place. For example, 1,234,567 is expressed as follows to an open vowel.
When a number is used as an adjective, the standard word order is: number + measure word. However, for round numbers, the word order is flipped to: measure word + number. The exception to this rule is the number 10, which follows the standard word order.
Ordinal numbers, from first to tenth, are Burmese pronunciations of their Pali equivalents. They are prefixed to the noun. Beyond that, cardinal numbers can be raised to the ordinal by suffixing the particle to the number in the following order: number + measure word +.
Colloquially, decimal numbers are formed by saying where the decimal separator is located. For example, 10.1 is . Half is expressed primarily by , although, and are also used. Quarter is expressed with or. Other fractional numbers are verbally expressed as follows: denominator + + numerator +. literally translates as "portion." For example, 3/4 would be expressed as, literally "of four portions, three portions.
Alternate numbers
Other numbers, not of Tibeto-Burman origin, are also found in the Burmese language, usually from Pali or Sanskrit. They are exceedingly rare in modern usage.
