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Example 8-57
Di fos manggo di bwai-dem tiif pwail.
Di
det
fos
first
manggo
mango
di
det
bwai-dem
boy-
pl
tiif
steal
pwail.
spoil
The first mango the boys stole spoiled.
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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