Re: Animal plurals/collective nouns (was Re: Re: irregularconlangs)

> > Hmm, a closet conlanger making dictionaries?  :-)  But seriously, that's
> > a good question.  Does this occur in many other natlangs?  That is,
> > using odd collectives?
Maltese has one that I know of:

mara - woman
nisa - women

Plurals generally follow the Arabic model.

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