Numeral System in Thadou.

The paper aims to discuss the nature of numeral system in Thadou, a Kuki-Chin language of the Northern Kuki-Chin group of the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken mainly in the north-eastern part of India including Manipur, Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura and some parts of the neighbouring country, Myanmar by 2000,000 speakers approximately. Thadou, like other Kuki-Chin languages follows the decimal system of counting. The numbers from 1 to 10 have separate lexical item and follow a monomorphemic pattern. From 1 to 19, the numeral system of Thadou is purely decimal. The higher numerals are formed by different processes like additives, multiplicatives etc. Numerals in Thadou can be classified into: cardinals, ordinals, fractional, multiplicative and approximates. Numerals in Thadou are adjectives and they follow the head noun as in other SOV languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]