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Example 61-30
Phist
lo mabili fan ga mina shatile.
Phist
first
lo
def
.
art
mabili
two
fan
son
ga
poss
mina
me
shat-ile.
marry-
pst
My first two sons got married. OR: The first (time) my two sons got married.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Language:
Fanakalo
by
Rajend Mesthrie
cite
Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: 'First' is suppletive, all other numerals are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
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