NumType: numeral type
| Values: | Card | Ord |
In Khoekhoe, numerical expressions such as cardinal and ordinal numbers have a NumType feature. From the syntactic point of view, some ordinal numbers behave like adjectives or adverbs and are tagged as such.
Card: cardinal numbers
Examples
- ǀgui, ǀgam, ǃnona ‘one, two, three’
Ord: ordinal number
Examples
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ǂgūro/ǂguro, ǀgamǁî, ǃnonaǁî ‘first, second, third’ (adjectives)
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ǂgūrose/ǂgurose, ǀgamǁîse, ǃnonaǁîse ‘as first, as second, as third’ (adverbs)
NumType in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [el] [en] [es] [fi] [fr] [ga] [hu] [hy] [it] [ka] [kk] [koi] [kpv] [ky] [mdf] [myv] [naq] [pcm] [qpm] [sl] [sme] [sv] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urj] [uz] [xav] [xcl] [xmf]