Datapoint Chinese Pidgin English/Order of cardinal numeral and noun

The order matches both English and Chinese. A numeral typically calls for the classifer piecee, with certain exceptions such as time words which (as in Chinese) do not take a classifier, e.g. ten year in Example 11.

Values

Numeral precedes noun

Example 20-10:
都卑士文吉地地化倫士
Two piecee man cuttee differencee.
Two
two
piecee
clf
man
man
cuttee
cut
differencee.
difference
Let us split the difference. OR: The two of us will split the difference.

Source: Tong 1862: VI.4

Example 20-11:
吉(口顚) 爺
Got ten year.
Got
got
ten
ten
year.
year
There have been ten years.

Source: Tong 1862: VI.76

Confidence:
Very certain