Thread:Support/New plural rules for Scots Gaelic (gd)/reply (17)

You're not being a pain - I appreciate your patience with a rather awkward number system!

Gaelic distinguishes singular and plural (the dual is pretty much obsolete). If used without a numeral, then there are no morphophonemic changes that neet to be observed beyong the singular/plural morphology.

Using sub-categories, you'd get tha fo-roinn ann "be subcategory in.existance" and tha fo-roinntean ann "be subcategories in.existance".

If you cound subcategories, you get the whole shebang (and before you ask, I've added the word duilleag "page" as well because words with initial dentals are different (hence Form 1/2): 1 fho-roinn | duilleag 2 fho-roinn | dhuilleag 3 fo-roinntean | duilleagan ... 11 fho-roinn | duilleag 12 fho-roinn | dhuilleag 13 fo-roinntean | duilleagan ... 20 fo-roinn ...