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Example 9-68
Fos taym me de hia dat now.
Fos
first
taym
time
me
me
de
prog
hia
hear
dat
that
now.
now
Now that's the first time I heard that.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1980-1989
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
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Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: ‘First’, ‘second’, or more are suppletive, the others are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
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