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Example 36-47
Pumbêlu
kikiê ma ê puri ku ê tha kôvina.
Pumbêlu
first
kikiê
fish
ma
rel
ê
3sg
puri
meet
ku
with
ê
3sg
tha
cop
kôvina.
corvine
The first fish he met was a corvine.
French:
Le premier poisson qu'il rencontra, c'était un corb.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Maurer 1995
: 48
Language:
Angolar
by
Philippe Maurer
cite
Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: Cardinal and ordinal numerals are identical except for ‘one’ and ‘first’
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