Datapoint Jamaican/Indefinite articles

It needs to be pointed out that the indefinite article and the numeral 'one' are not phonetically identical. However, it is clear that they are historically related and just different phonetic realizations of the same historical form. The numeral ends with a nasal consonant (i.e. wan), while the indefinite article ends with a nasalized vowel (i.e. wahn).

Values

Indefinite article distinct from numeral ‘one’

Example 8-46:
Wahn uman gi Piita di loki lato nomba fi plie.
Wahn
indf
uman
woman
gi
give
Piita
Peter
di
det
loki
lucky
lato
lottery
nomba
number
fi
inf
plie.
play
A woman gave Peter the lucky lottery number to play.
Example 8-47:
Piita pik wan apl an Mieri pik tuu.
Piita
Peter
pik
pick
wan
one
apl
apple
an
and
Mieri
Mary
pik
pick
tuu.
two
Peter picked one apple and Mary picked two.
Confidence:
Very certain