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Examples
kyón v-ótò	first man
or
kyón v-ó
lóy v-ótò or lóy v-ó	first woman
frò v-ótò or frò v-ó	first dog
kákò v-ótò or kákò v-ó	first book

Ordinal marker -ótò is also added to another form of the basic cardinal numeral i.e. móts

à meaning ‘one’. Like the ordinal form

ótó’ this form also can be used for both animate and inanimate nouns.

Examples
kyón mótsà-ótò or kyón mótsà-ó	first man
frò mótsà-ótò or frò mótsà-ó	first dog
kákò mótsà-ótò or kákó mótsà-ó	first book

When definite or indefinite articles are added to the ordinal forms, they are added to the whole ordinal phrase,

Examples
kyón v-ótò-c man first the
or kyón v-ó-c or kyón mótsà-ó-c	the first man

Ordinal forms from one to ten are as follows :

1. móts

à-ótò first
2.

nì-ótò second
3.

t^h

m-ótò third
4. m

-ótò fourth
5. m

ò-ótò five
6. t

rók-ótò sixth
7. tíyì

-ótò seventh
8. t

zà-ótò eighth
9. t

kù-ótò nine
10. tárò-ótò tenth

All the above mentioned cardinal forms can be used by dropping the final syllable of the ordinal marker i.e. -tò as explained in the case of ordinal numeral ‘first’.

3.11.3. Distributive numerals :

Distributive numerals from one to three are formed by reduplicating the final syllable of the cardinal numeral,

Examples
1. mótsà	one
mótsts	one each
nt tóp móts ts pà	give them one each
them all one each give
2. ®nì -	‘two
®nìnì	two each
°nt® tóp«$ ®nìnì p¢à	give them two each
them all two each give
3. t^hm- three	three each
t^hm t^hm

Distributives from ‘four’ onwards are formed by reduplicating the full form of the cardinal numeral.

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