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Example 7-93
fuhs sekan tuhd foot fif siks(t) sevn(t) eit naint tent - wan tu chrii foo faiv siks sevn eit nain ten
fuhs
first
sekan
second
tuhd
third
foot
fourth
fif
fifth
siks(t)
sixth
sevn(t)
seventh
eit
eighth
naint
ninth
tent
tenth
-
-
wan
one
tu
two
chrii
three
foo
four
faiv
five
siks
six
sevn
seven
eit
eight
nain
nine
ten
ten
first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth tenth - one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Vincentian Creole
by
Paula Prescod
cite
Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: ‘First’, ‘second’, or more are suppletive, the others are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
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