I have started to learn Welsh (as part of work, we get to do a course for free) and I just finished learning numbers. I cannot help but see the similarities between the pronunciation of those numbers in Welsh and Hindi (even though Hindi ain’t my native language). Here is a table where I list the way the numbers are pronounced in Welsh and Hindi. In Welsh, the vowels are different from English and the actual pronunciation is in the brackets.
| Number | Welsh (pronounced as) | Hindi |
| 1 | un (een) | ek |
| 2 | dau (dai) | dho |
| 3 | tri | theen |
| 4 | pedwar | chaar |
| 5 | pump (pim) | paanch |
| 6 | chewch (quekh) | che |
| 7 | saith | saath |
| 8 | wyth (aith) | aat |
| 9 | naw (nau) | nau |
| 10 | deg | dhus |
Not much different are they? Wonder how they got to be this similar in pronunciation of the numbers. Will I find any more similarities the more I learn the language?
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