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Example 23-70
i flae go kasem nambatri poen
i
agr
flae
fly
go
go
kasem
catch
nambatri
number.three
poen
point
He flew till he reached the third point.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Meyerhoff nd
Language:
Bislama
by
Miriam Meyerhoff
cite
Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: All ordinal numerals are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals, but ‘first’ may also be suppletive
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