Plural/Mediawiki plural rules

''This page is a draft and may contain errors. Last updated 9 April 2012. This page has not been updated to reflect the switch to CLDR plurals in 2012-09, nor the breaking changes in CLDR 24 and CLDR26''

The table shows the MediaWiki plural rules for all languages enabled for localisation at translatewiki.net.

The default rules are those for English, with one form for the number 1 and another for all other numbers.

At present the plural rules in Mediawiki haven't considered decimal numbers - except for a few languages. This means that decimal numbers may or may not work as expected by falling in to one of the plural forms (usually the last one, other). Actually since switch to CLDR decimal numbers have better support.

The rule reference in the column 'Group' follows the references in CLDR, with a suffix 'a' where the rules in Mediawiki and CLDR differ. Needs updating.


 * An alternative ruleset has been defined for this language, with 2 forms; n is 1 and n is not 1.