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Example 59-127
kozo masia ti mbi
kozo
first
masia
adolescent.girl
ti
of
mbi
1sg
my first adolescent daughter
Comment:
Notice that as an adjective /kozo/ does not occur with DET.
Kozo ni
'the first' can be used adverbially or nominally.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Taber and Samarin 1965
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: Cardinal and ordinal numerals are identical except for ‘one’ and ‘first’
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