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Example 26-46
tu kɹeizi damis
tu
two
kɹeizi
crazy
damis
dummies
two crazy dummies
Comment:
native speaker poetry
Type:
written (poetic)
Source:
Balaz 1998
Language:
Hawai‘i Creole
by
Viveka Velupillai
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Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: ‘First’, ‘second’, or more are suppletive, the others are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
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