Universal #1751

Legacy number: 1751

 Number  1746
 Original  Ordinal numerals are likelier to be borrowed than corresponding cardinal numerals.

 Standardized  IF a cardinal numeral is a borrowing, THEN the corresponding ordinal numeral will also be a borrowing.
 Keywords  numeral, cardinal, ordinal, borrowing
 Domain  lexicon
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of 100 languages, listed in the appendix
 Source  Stolz 1999

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