tsʰɛn³⁵

From Chinese 千 (qiān, “thousand”), possibly via Southwestern Mandarin. It seems that this loanword replaced the native term derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-toŋ (“thousand”), which most Burmish languages still have, as in Burmese ထောင် (htaung, “thousand”), and outside Burmish, for instance, Tibetan སྟོང (stong, “thousand”).

IPA^(key): /tsʰɛn³⁵/

tsʰɛn³⁵

1. thousand

Like in English, Chinese and Burmese, tsʰɛn³⁵ needs to be modified with a cardinal numeral. Thus, for "one thousand", tə̆.tsʰɛn³⁵ ("tə̆" is a reduced form of ta³¹("one")) should be used.

• tʰai⁵⁵ ("ten")
• ja⁵⁵ ("hundred")
• van³⁵ ("ten thousand, myriad")

• Dai Qingxia, Jiang Ying, Kong Zhien, A Study of Pela Language (2007; Publishing House of Minority Nationalities, Beijing)