Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *yẹgirmi (twenty). Cognate with Kazakh жиырма (jiyrma), Kyrgyz жыйырма (jıyırma), Crimean Tatar yigirmi, Karachay-Balkar джыйырма (cıyırma), Kumyk йигирма (yigirma), Azerbaijani iyirmi, Turkish yirmi, Turkmen ýigrimi, Uzbek yigirmi, Khakas чибірге (çibìrge), Shor чегирбе, Tuvan чээрби (çeerbi), Western Yugur yïɣïrma, etc.

Numeral

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јирме (ǰirme)

  1. twenty