the Tech Croach cyber-crawling the Information Super Highway

Let’s learn how to work with numbers now. First memorize the following Sinhala words/sounds for numbers. There are nice and easy patterns just like in English. Only “eka siyaya” is slightly different because instead of “ek-“, it has “eka” (but still “ek-“ in prefix form is as same as “eka” both having the meaning of “one”).   1 - eka 2 - dheka 3 - thuna 4 - hathara 5 - paha 6 - haya 7 - hatha 8 - ata 9 – navaya /namaya 10 - dhahaya 11 - ekolaha 12 - dholaha 13 - dhahathuna 14 - dhahahathara 15 - pahalava 16 - dhahasaya 17 - dhahahatha 18 – dhaha-ata 19 - dhahanavaya 20 – vissa         (“ visi -”) 21 – visi-eka 22 – visi-dheka 23 – visi-thuna 24 – visi-hathara 25 – visi-paha 26 – visi-haya 27 – visi-hatha 28 – visi-ata 29 – visi-navaya 30 – thiha    ...