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Example 8-56
Di bwai-dem tek wan manngo an tuu apl.
Di
det
bwai-dem
boy-
pl
tek
take
wan
one
manngo
mango
an
and
tuu
two
apl.
apple
The boys took one mango and two apples.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: ‘First’, ‘second’, or more are suppletive, the others are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
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