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Re: QUESTION: types of plurals, few/many

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, June 20, 2002, 2:29
"Karapcik, Mike" wrote:
> [1] Is this represented in any natural languages, or conlangs? I > know many languages have single, dual, and plural (Arabic and Hawai'ian that > I've dabbled in, and it's in my Sanskrit text book; I've read it's a fairly > common setup), some have a trial number, and a scant few even have a quatral > and quintal number.
There are languages with Singular/Dual/Paucal/Plural, where Paucal = "a few", sometimes misleadingly called "Trial". -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42