Recent discoveries in W.

I've finally discovered how ordinals are handled, after experimenting
with cases and the like.  Cardinal numbers are indeclinable, _ta
nlaku's_ (one man), _ta pivauta'_ (one cup), etc.  However, adjectives
agree with nouns in number, case, and gender.  I discovered that
ordinals do too, and that they are no different from ordinals other than
in agreeing and in having an accent, on the first syllable.  Thus,
_nata' nlaku's_ (na-ta' n-laku's) = G2-one G2-man = "first man",
_natta'if nallaku'sif_ (nat-ta'-i-f nal-laku's-i-f) = G2Pl-one-Pl-Gen
G2Pl-man-Pl-Gen = of the first men.

I've also recently discovered how superlatives and comparatives are
handled.  They take infixes -tu- (comparative) and -la- (superlative).
-Tu- and -la- almost always go after the first vowel.  In a few words,
they are prefixes.  Those are descended from adjectives which began with
he"- (/h@/), e.g., _he"lana'se_ (friendly)/_he"TOlana'se_/_he"LAlana'se_
(-to-, -la-) became lana'si/tulana'si/lalana'si, however, many of these
have become infixes by analogy, thus, one occasionally finds forms like
_latuna'si_ for _tulana'si_ (friendlier)

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