Cabot Creole: Difference between revisions
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===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||
===Negation=== | ===Negation=== | ||
Negation is marked by a verb prefix ''te-'' (realized as ''te’-'' before vowels). | |||
===Numerals=== | ===Numerals=== | ||
Cabot Creole uses base-10 numerals, and numbers 1-10 have separate forms for human referents. | |||
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
|+ Numerals | |||
|- | |||
! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! 100 !! 1,000 !! 1,000,000 | |||
|- | |||
! Nonhuman | |||
| rowspan="2" | si:rò: || mų́n || thó: || thurí: || ho:rù || háy || síks || semų̀n || é:t || ną́:y || thę́n || rowspan="2" | hųrèt || rowspan="2" | thawsų̀n || rowspan="2" | mįyų̀n | |||
|- | |||
! Human | |||
| lu:tsì:k || tekhì: || a:są̀ || ke:rì || quhìsk || tshatarę́ || tshatàk || tekhų́ || mąthų́ || wa:tshą̀: | |||
|} | |||
*Billions and above are borrowed ad hoc from English. | |||
Ordinal numerals are derived with ''-wa:'', except for "first" this suffix is directly attached to the head noun. | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||