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Example 9-69
Tu tri nat de kɛʧ mi wan taym, n̩ ay av tu daʤ di fowt wan.
Tu
two
tri
three
nat
north
de
they
kɛʧ
catch
mi
me
wan
one
taym,
time
n̩
and
ay
1sg
av
have
tu
to
daʤ
dodge
di
the
fowt
fourth
wan.
one
Two-three storms (coming from the north) caught me once, and I had to dodge the fourth one.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1985
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Ordinal numerals: ‘First’, ‘second’, or more are suppletive, the others are synchronically derived from cardinal numerals
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