Numeral Classifiers (Feature 36)
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Feature Annotation
This features aimes at capturing sortalnumeral classifiers, i.e. those which divide the inventory of count nouns into semantic classes, each of which is associated with a different classifier. In Minangkabau (Indonesia), human nouns take urang, nonhuman animate nouns ikue, and elongated objects batang:
sa-urang padusi duo ikue anjiang tigo batang pituluik
one-CLF woman two CLF dog three CLF pencil
‘one woman’ ‘two dogs’ ‘three pencils’
Additional remarks
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Values
| Value | Value Annotation | |
| 1 | The language has no numeral classifiers | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | The language has numeral classifiers | |
WALS No.
55 (Total)
