Re: QUESTION: types of plurals, few/many

>It works like that in Ilaini: _daysen_ "drop of water, raindrop",
>_daysin_, genitive _daysenin_ "drops of water, individual raindrops",
>_daysin_, genitive _daysinin_ "rain".
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>The nominative collective plural is identical to the the normal plural,
>but the normal plural has -e- in all other cases, whereas thecollective keeps -i-.
>Irina
I'm responding late once more.

The raindrops remindsme of my experiment lately with Tlapoa number marking.
I use inverse marking right now and I like it (I stole it from Kiowa).
Tlapoa uses inverse marking. Some nouns are inherently singular,
others are inherently plural.
Examples of inherently singular nouns are like man, house, boat.
Examples of inherently plural nouns are: ants, leaves, cherries and raindrops.

To indicate that the noun is the opposite of its inherent nature,
the definite article 'o' (animate) or 'a' (inanimate) is replaced by the article) 'i'.

o tloko     the man            i tloko      the men
a petlepe the raindrops    i petlepe   the raindrop

Rob