John Cowan wrote:
>
> Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
>
> > Strange... How did they make their ordinal numbers before this
> > "borrowing", does anyone know?
>
> They might not have needed it. From what I understand, large ordinals
> are a feature of high civilizations. (Cardinals are needed pretty
> quickly.)
>
Now that I think of it, isn't that Spanish that uses ordinals only from
1 to 10, and doesn't use the other ordinals whereas it possesses them?
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