Re: QUESTION: types of plurals, few/many

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
>"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".
I heard of some Austronesian language with a
singular~dual~trial~paucal~plural distinction. Can't recall anything more,
tho'.

                                                           Andreas

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