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What happened to the Spanish ordinal numbers?

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From: nad...@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
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Subject: What happened to the Spanish ordinal numbers?
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 12:46:26 -0000 (UTC)
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by: Christian Weisgerber - Sat, 23 Jul 2022 12:46 UTC

Spanish cardinal and ordinal numbers:
https://omniglot.com/language/numbers/spanish.htm

Huh. Looks like Spanish doesn't have ordinal numbers. It's striking
for 20+, but already in the single digits, things are starting to
look iffy. Not sure about "cuarto" and "quinto", but "sexto" and
"séptimo" are so not Spanish.

I mean, there _are_ ordinal numbers, but they are clearly borrowed
from Latin and only indirectly related to the Spanish cardinal
numbers.

Portuguese looks similar. (Catalan patterns with French instead.)

What happened there?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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What happened to the Spanish ordinal numbers?	Christian Weisgerber