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Example 12-72
My daughter is thirty-four. – [... She's the oldest?] – No, that's the second.
[...]
[...]
that's
dem
.
3sg
.
cop
the
art
second.
num
[...] that's my second (daughter).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: ‘First’, ‘second’, or more are suppletive, the others are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
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