Thread:Support/New plural rules for Scots Gaelic (gd)/reply (7)

Can I ask whether the whole sentence should be negated in Scots Gaelic, if the number is 0? Does Scots Gaelic use singular or plural forms with 0? Even if the grammar for 0 is different to English, this will not necessarily trigger an extra form in MediaWiki. There are two languages, Swahili and Manx, where sentences negate for 0, but where discussion (on Support, can't remember when) led to the conclusion that the number of times the grammar will be wrong in MediaWiki is negligible. This is because usually, two separate English messages are created where 0 is a possibility, because they prefer to use 'no' instead of '0'. There is a message on the recent changes page where 0 does occasionally occur as part of the PLURAL function. There may be others. In Welsh, however, we chose to include 0 as a form, which of course is more work, but also more flexible.

However, on CLDR, you might prefer to mention this (if 0 does trigger grammar changes in Scots Gaelic), and you may prefer to include 0 as a possibility here on translatewiki.net in case it is needed in current or future projects other than MediaWiki. The advice on CLDR (I don't have the link handy just now) is to document any grammar changes caused by plural numbers, not just changes to the noun forms.