Thread:Support/New plural rules for Scots Gaelic (gd)/reply (18)

OK, liquid threads appears to have recovered from its hissy fit! I have found a few examples of MediaWiki using the PLURAL function in sentences which depend on a number variable but which don't actually use the number in the sentence: If you want to keep 1 and 11 in the same group, then you would perhaps have to live with using the plural noun form for that group, so that the grammar is correct for 11. Cascadeprotected and Caascadeprotectedwarning also contain relative pronouns, which in Welsh are spelled differently when referring to singular and plural nouns.

By the way, you might be interested that the complex number system in Welsh is similar to the Scots Gaelic system described above. However, we can also use an alternative decimal system for cardinal numbers (but not ordinals), invented in the nineteenth century, which puts the tens before the units - a lot simpler but still unable to completely unseat the complex number system.

We also have initial mutations, like Scots Gaelic, and that, together with negating sentences with 0, accounts for the 6 forms used for PLURAL in Welsh. There are some words which cause mutations with various other numbers, but you have to call a halt somewhere!

Our dual numbers also disappeared a long time ago, and survive only in a few idiosyncracies such as 'dwylo' for a pair of hands.

Regards