Journal of Language Volume 5, Number 2, pp: 309-327, November 2023 e-ISSN: 2685-8878 | p-ISSN: 2655-9080 https://jurnal.uisu.ac.id/index.php/journaloflanguage 309 Nationally Accredited in SINTA 4 and indexed in Copernicus NUMERAL TO NUMERAL OF BALMIKI AND KUPIA: A MORPHOLOGICAL COMPARISON Biswanandan Dash 1 , Subrat Kalyan Pattanayak 2 1 Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India 2 Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia E-mail: bn.dash@.gmail.com Received: 2023-08-14 Accepted: 2023-11-19 Published: 2023-11-29 Abstract Numeral systems are the major counting methods found across languages. They are characterised by unique morphosyntactic structures to show numericity. The efficiency of communicating numbers is related to the morphological construction of numerals. These are also valuable sources for genetic classification. Besides, they play a vital role in establishing the antiquity of a cognate language. Peculiarly, the numeral systems of languages are the most vulnerable to elimination due to major or dominant languages. The quest in this article is to analyse the numeral morphology of Balmiki, a lesser-known language spoken in Odisha, and compare it with that of Kupia, a language spoken in Andhra Pradesh by the B/Valmiki community, to determine if their numeral structures are concealed or influenced by their encroaching languages. This study further contests a louder outbreak created during 2016-18 to ‘discover the Walmiki language’ by analysing a few unreliable numeral examples. In a series, this is the second study that compares and propounds conclusively to the fact that how these duo languages shed light on shared characteristics of numerals inherited or descended in other Indo-Aryan traditions from an etymological ancestor. Keywords: Andhra Pradesh; balmiki; morphological structure; kupia; numbers; numerals; odisha 1. Introduction The danger of being known as someone fascinated by vague discovery is that you run the potential risk of respect from peers and academicians using it to humour you. It is essential to maintain a balance between fascination with a rigorous and discerning approach to avoid being perceived as gullible or naive. Moreover, Karl Popper (1995) offers a systematic frame of mind in which related disciplines cover the problem with greater tolerance to other counter-contentions. In his words: “We must be clear in our own minds that we need other people to discover and correct our mistakes (as they need us), especially those people who have grown up with different ideas in a different environment. This too leads to tolerance” (Popper, 1995: 202 -fn).