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.

Language	Code	Group	Rules	Examples	Note
Afar	aa		Default
Abkhazian	ab		Default
Achinese	ace		Default
Adyghe	ady		Default
Tunisian Arabic	aeb		Default
Afrikaans	af		Default
अहिराणी	ahr		Default
Akan	ak		Default
Alabama	akz		Default
Gheg Albanian	aln		Default
Tosk	als		Default
Amharic	am	one-zero	<=1 other	0, 1 2, 3...
Aragonese	an		Default
Old English	ang		Default
Angika	anp		Default
Arabic	ar	arabic	0 1 2 mod 100 in 3..10 mod 100 in 11..99 other	0 1 2 3-10, 103-110, 203-210.. 11-99, 111-199, 211.. 100-102, 200-202, 300..
Aramaic	arc		Default
Mapuche	arn		Default
Araona	aro		Default
Algerian Arabic	arq		Default
Moroccan Arabic	ary		Default
Egyptian Arabic	arz		Default
Assamese	as		Default
Asturian	ast		Default
Avaric	av		Default
Kotava	avk		Default
Aymara	ay		Default
Azerbaijani	az		Default
Bashkir	ba		Default
Bavarian	bar		Default
Batak Toba	bbc		Default
Southern Balochi	bcc		Default
Central Bikol	bcl		Default
Belarusian	be	Rule K	n mod 10 is 1 and n mod 100 is not 11 n mod 10 in 2..4 and n mod 100 not in 12..14 n mod 10 is 0 or n mod 10 in 5..9 or n mod 100 in 11..14	1, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61... 2-4, 22-24, 32-34... 0, 5-20, 25-30, 35-40...	1
Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)	be-tarask	Rule K	n mod 10 is 1 and n mod 100 is not 11 n mod 10 in 2..4 and n mod 100 not in 12..14 n mod 10 is 0 or n mod 10 in 5..9 or n mod 100 in 11..14	1, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61... 2-4, 22-24, 32-34... 0, 5-20, 25-30, 35-40...	1
Betawi	bew		Default
Badaga	bfq		Default
Bulgarian	bg	default	Default
Western Balochi	bgn		Default
Bhojpuri	bho	one-zero	<=1 other	0, 1 2, 3...
Bislama	bi		Default
Banjar	bjn		Default
Bambara	bm		Default
Bangla	bn		Default
Tibetan	bo		Default
Bishnupriya	bpy		Default
Bakhtiari	bqi		Default
Breton	br		Default
Brahui	brh		Default
Bosnian	bs	Rule K	n mod 10 is 1 and n mod 100 is not 11 n mod 10 in 2..4 and n mod 100 not in 12..14 n mod 10 is 0 or n mod 10 in 5..9 or n mod 100 in 11..14	1, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61... 2-4, 22-24, 32-34... 0, 5-20, 25-30, 35-40..
Iriga Bicolano	bto		Default
Buginese	bug		Default
Russia Buriat	bxr		Default
Catalan	ca		Default
Chavacano	cbk-zam		Default
Min Dong Chinese	cdo		Default		Plural checks disabled
Chechen	ce		Default
Cebuano	ceb		Default
Chamorro	ch		Default
Choctaw	cho		Default
Cherokee	chr		Default
Cheyenne	chy		Default
Central Kurdish	ckb		Default
Corsican	co		Default
Capiznon	cps		Default
Cree	cr		Default
Crimean Turkish	crh		Default
Czech	cs	Rule L	n is 1 n in 2-4 other	1 2-4 0, 5..
Kashubian	csb		Default
Church Slavic	cu	Rule AAa	n mod 10 is 1 n mod 10 is 2 n mod 10 in 3-4 other	1, 11, 21.. 2, 12, 22.. 3-4, 13-14, 23-24.. 0, 5-10, 15-20..
Chuvash	cv		Default
Welsh	cy	Rule Q	0 1 2 3 6 other	0 1 2 3 6 4, 5, 7, 8...
Danish	da		Default
German	de		Default
Zazaki	diq		Default
Lower Sorbian	dsb	Rule ACa	n mod 100 is 1 n mod 100 is 2 n mod 100 in 3-4 other	1, 101, 201.. 2, 102, 202... 3-4, 103-104, 203-204.. 0, 5-100, 105-200..
Central Dusun	dtp		Default
Divehi	dv		Default
Dzongkha	dz		Default
Ewe	ee		Default
Emilian	egl		Default
Greek	el		Default
Emiliano-Romagnolo	eml		Default
English	en		1 other	1 0, 2, 3...
Esperanto	eo	default	Default
Spanish	es		Default
Central Yupik	esu		Default
Estonian	et	default	Default
Basque	eu		Default
Extremaduran	ext		Default
Persian	fa		Default
Fulah	ff		Default
Finnish	fi	default	Default
Tornedalen Finnish	fit		Default
Fijian	fj		Default
Faroese	fo		Default
French	fr	one-zero	<=1 other	0, 1 2, 3...
Cajun French	frc		Default
Arpitan	frp		Default
Northern Frisian	frr		Default
Friulian	fur		Default
Western Frisian	fy		Default
Irish	ga	has-duala Broken link!	n is 0 n is 1 2-6, 12-16, 21-26, 31-36... 7-10, 17-19, 27-29... other	0 1 2-6, 12-16, 21-26, 31-36... 7-10, 17-19, 27-29... other	see Talk page for details
Gagauz	gag		Default
Alekano	gah		Default
Gan Chinese	gan	default	Default
Zoroastrian Dari	gbz		Default
Guadeloupean Creole French	gcf		Default
Scottish Gaelic	gd	Rule Xa	1 2 11 12 3..10, 13..19 0, 20..	1 2 11 12 3..10, 13..19 0, 20..
Galician	gl		Default
Gilaki	glk		Default
Guarani	gn		Default
Goan Konkani	gom		Default
Gothic	got		Default
Ancient Greek	grc		Default
Swiss German	gsw		Default
Gujarati	gu		Default
Wayuu	guc		Default
Frafra	gur		Default
Manx	gv	Rule Wa	n mod 20 is 0 and n is not 0 n mod 10 is 1 n mod 10 is 2 other	20, 40.. 1, 11, 21.. 2, 12, 22.. 0, 3-10, 13-19..
Hausa	ha		Default
Hakka Chinese	hak		Default
Hawaiian	haw		Default
Hebrew	he	has-dual	1 2 other	1 2 0, 3..
Hindi	hi	one-zero	<=1 other	0, 1 2, 3...
Fiji Hindi	hif		Default
Hiligaynon	hil		Default
छत्तीसगढ़ी	hne		Default
Hiri Motu	ho		Default
Croatian	hr	Rule K	n mod 10 is 1 and n mod 100 is not 11 n mod 10 in 2..4 and n mod 100 not in 12..14 n mod 10 is 0 or n mod 10 in 5..9 or n mod 100 in 11..14	1, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61... 2-4, 22-24, 32-34... 0, 5-20, 25-30, 35-40...
Upper Sorbian	hsb	Rule ACa	n mod 100 is 1 n mod 100 is 2 n mod 100 in 3-4 other	1, 101, 201.. 2, 102, 202... 3-4, 103-104, 203-204.. 0, 5-100, 105-200..
Xiang Chinese	hsn		Default
Haitian Creole	ht		Default
Hungarian	hu	default	Default
Armenian	hy	one-zero	<=1 other	0, 1 2, 3...
Herero	hz		Default
Interlingua	ia		Default
Indonesian	id		Default
Interlingue	ie		Default
Igbo	ig		Default
Sichuan Yi	ii		Default
Inupiaq	ik		Default
Iloko	ilo		Default
Ingush	inh		Default
Ido	io		Default
Icelandic	is		Default
Italian	it		Default
Inuktitut	iu	default	Default
Japanese	ja	default	Default
Jamaican Creole English	jam		Default
Lojban	jbo		Default
Jutish	jut		Default
Javanese	jv		Default
Georgian	ka		Default
Kara-Kalpak	kaa	default	Default
Kabyle	kab		Default
Kabardian	kbd		Default
Kabuverdianu	kea		Default
Kongo	kg		Default
Kaingang	kgp		Default
Khowar	khw		Default
Kikuyu	ki		Default
Kirmanjki	kiu		Default
Kuanyama	kj		Default
Kazakh	kk	default	Default
Kalaallisut	kl		Default
Khmer	km	default	Default
Kannada	kn		Default
Korean	ko		Default
Komi-Permyak	koi		Default
Kanuri	kr		Default
Karachay-Balkar	krc		Default
Krio	kri		Default
Kinaray-a	krj		Default
Karelian	krl		Default
Kashmiri	ks		Default
Bafia	ksf		Default
Colognian	ksh	Rule U	1 other 0	1 2, 3, 4... 0
Kurdish	ku	default	Default
Komi	kv		Default
Cornish	kw		Default
Kyrgyz	ky		Default
Latin	la	default	Default
Ladino	lad		Default
Luxembourgish	lb		Default
Lak	lbe		Default
Lezghian	lez		Default
Lingua Franca Nova	lfn		Default
Ganda	lg		Default
Limburgish	li		Default
Ligurian	lij		Default
Livonian	liv		Default
Ladin	lld		Default
Lombard	lmo		Default
Lingala	ln	one-zero	<=1 other	0, 1 2, 3...
Lao	lo		Default
Lozi	loz		Default
Lithuanian	lt	Rule J	n mod 10 is 1 and n mod 100 not in 11..19 n mod 10 in 2..9 and n mod 100 not in 11..19 other	1, 21, 31... 2-9, 22-29, 32-39... 0, 10-20, 30, 40...	1
Latgalian	ltg		Default
Mizo	lus		Default
Latvian	lv	Rule Fa	n mod 10 is 1 and n mod 100 is not 11 other	1, 21, 31, ... 101, 121... 0, 2, 3...
Literary Chinese	lzh		Default
Laz	lzz		Default
Maithili	mai		Default
Basa Banyumasan	map-bms		Default
Moksha	mdf		Default
Morisyen	mfe		Default
Malagasy	mg	one-zero	<=1 other	0, 1 2, 3...
Marshallese	mh		Default
Eastern Mari	mhr		Default
Maori	mi		Default
Mi'kmaq	mic		Default
Minangkabau	min		Default
Macedonian	mk	Rule Pa	n mod 10 is 1 and n mod 100 is not 11 other	1, 21, 31, ... 101, 121... 0, 2, 3...
Malayalam	ml	default	Default
Mongolian	mn		Default
Manchu	mnc		Default
Manipuri	mni		Default
Moldovan	mo	Rule I	1 n is 0 OR n is not 1 AND n mod 100 in 1..19 other	1 0, 2..19, 101..119, 201.. 20..100, 120..
Marathi	mr		Default
Western Mari	mrj		Default
Malay	ms		Default
Maltese	mt	Rule O	1 n is 0 or n mod 100 in 2..10 n mod 100 in 11..19 other	1 0, 2-10, 102-110, .. 11-19, 111-119, .. 20-101, 120-201, ..
Musi	mui		Default
Muscogee	mus		Default
Mirandese	mwl		Default
Mentawai	mwv		Default
Burmese	my	default	Default
Erzya	myv		Default
Mazanderani	mzn		Default
Nauru	na		Default
Nāhuatl	nah		Default
Min Nan Chinese	nan		Default
Neapolitan	nap		Default
Norwegian Bokmål	nb		Default
Low German	nds		Default
Nepali	ne		Default
Newari	new		Default
Ndonga	ng		Default
Niuean	niu		Default
Ao Naga	njo		Default
Dutch	nl		Default
Norwegian Nynorsk	nn		Default
Novial	nov		Default
N’Ko	nqo		Default
Norman	nrm		Default
Northern Sotho	nso	one-zero	<=1 other	0, 1 2, 3...
Navajo	nv		Default
Nyanja	ny		Default
Occitan	oc		Default
Oromo	om		Default
Odia	or		Default
Ossetic	os	default	Default
Punjabi	pa		Default
Pangasinan	pag		Default
Pampanga	pam		Default
Papiamento	pap		Default
Picard	pcd		Default
Pennsylvania German	pdc		Default
Plautdietsch	pdt		Default
Palatine German	pfl		Default
Pali	pi		Default
Norfuk / Pitkern	pih		Default
Pijin	pis		Default
Pökoot	pko		Default
Polish	pl	Rule M	1 n mod 10 in 2-4 and n mod 100 not in 12-14 other	1 2-4, 22-24, .. 102.. 0, 5-21, 25-31, .. 105..
Piedmontese	pms		Default
Western Punjabi	pnb		Default
Pontic	pnt		Default
Nawat	ppl		Default
Prussian	prg		Default
Pashto	ps		Default
Portuguese	pt		Default
Quechua	qu		Default
Chimborazo Highland Quichua	qug		Default
Rapanui	rap		Default
Romagnol	rgn		Default
Riffian	rif		Default
ရခိုင်	rki		Default
Romansh	rm		Default
Vlax Romani	rmy		Default
Rundi	rn		Default
Romanian	ro	Rule I	1 n is 0 OR n is not 1 AND n mod 100 in 1..19 other	1 0, 2..19, 101..119, 201.. 20..100, 120..
Tarantino	roa-tara		Default
Rotuman	rtm		Default
Russian	ru	Rule K	n mod 10 is 1 and n mod 100 is not 11 n mod 10 in 2..4 and n mod 100 not in 12..14 n mod 10 is 0 or n mod 10 in 5..9 or n mod 100 in 11..14	1, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61... 2-4, 22-24, 32-34... 0, 5-20, 25-30, 35-40..	1
Rusyn	rue		Default
Aromanian	rup		Default
Megleno-Romanian	ruq		Default
Kinyarwanda	rw		Default
ʔucināguci	ryu		Default
Sanskrit	sa		Default
Sakha	sah		Default
Santali	sat		Default
Saurashtra	saz		Default
Sardinian	sc		Default
Sicilian	scn		Default
Scots	sco		Default
Sindhi	sd		Default
Sassarese Sardinian	sdc		Default
Northern Sami	se	has-dual	1 2 other	1 2 0, 3, 4...
Seri	sei		Default
Sango	sg		Default
Samogitian	sgs	Rule ABa	n mod 10 is 1 and n mod 100 is not 11 n mod 10 is 2 and n mod 100 is not 12 o or n mod 100 is 0 or n mod 100 in 10-19 other	1, 21, 31.. 101, 121.. 2, 22, 32.. 102, 122.. 0, 10-19, 100, 110-119.. 3-9, 20, 23-30..
Serbo-Croatian	sh	Rule K	n mod 10 is 1 and n mod 100 is not 11 n mod 10 in 2..4 and n mod 100 not in 12..14 n mod 10 is 0 or n mod 10 in 5..9 or n mod 100 in 11..14	1, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61... 2-4, 22-24, 32-34... 0, 5-20, 25-30, 35-40..	1
Tachelhit	shi	default	Default
Shan	shn		Default
Sinhala	si		Default
Slovak	sk	Rule L	1 2..4 other	1 2, 3, 4 0, 5, 6...
Slovenian	sl	Rule Na	n mod 100 is 1 n mod 100 is 2 n mod 100 in 3-4 other n is 0	1, 101, 201, 301, 402.. 2, 102, 202, 302, 402.. 3-4, 103-104, 203-204.. 5-100, 105-200.. 0
Lower Silesian	sli		Default
Selayar	sly		Default
Samoan	sm		Default
Southern Sami	sma	has-dual	1 2 other	1 2 0, 3, 4..
Shona	sn		Default
Somali	so		Default
Albanian	sq		Default
Serbian	sr	Rule K	n mod 10 is 1 and n mod 100 is not 11 n mod 10 in 2..4 and n mod 100 not in 12..14 n mod 10 is 0 or n mod 10 in 5..9 or n mod 100 in 11..14	1, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61... 2-4, 22-24, 32-34... 0, 5-20, 25-30, 35-40..	1
Sranan Tongo	srn		Default
Swati	ss		Default
Southern Sotho	st		Default
Saterland Frisian	stq		Default
Sundanese	su		Default
Swedish	sv		Default
Swahili	sw		Default
Comorian	swb		Default
Säggssch	sxu		Default
Silesian	szl		Default
Tamil	ta		Default
Tulu	tcy		Default
Telugu	te		Default
Tetum	tet		Default
Tajik	tg	default	Default
Thai	th		Default
Tigrinya	ti	one-zero	<=1 other	0, 1 2, 3...
Turkmen	tk		Default
Tsakhur	tkr		Default
Tagalog	tl	one-zero	<=1 other	0, 1 2, 3...
Talysh	tly		Default
Tswana	tn		Default
Tongan	to		Default
Tok Pisin	tpi		Default
Turkish	tr	default	Default
Kokborok (Tripuri)	trp		Default
Turoyo	tru		Default
Tsonga	ts		Default
Tsakonian	tsd		Default
Tatar	tt		Default
Muslim Tat	ttt		Default
Tumbuka	tum		Default
Twi	tw		Default
Tweants	twd		Default
Tahitian	ty		Default
Tuvinian	tyv	default	Default
Central Atlas Tamazight	tzm		Default
Udmurt	udm		Default
Uyghur	ug		Default
Ukrainian	uk	Rule K	n mod 10 is 1 and n mod 100 is not 11 n mod 10 in 2..4 and n mod 100 not in 12..14 n mod 10 is 0 or n mod 10 in 5..9 or n mod 100 in 11..14	1, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61... 2-4, 22-24, 32-34... 0, 5-20, 25-30, 35-40..	1
Urdu	ur		Default
Uzbek	uz		Default
Venda	ve		Default
Venetian	vec		Default
Veps	vep		Default
Vietnamese	vi		Default
West Flemish	vls		Default
Main-Franconian	vmf		Default
Volapük	vo		Default
Votic	vot		Default
Võro	vro		Default
Walloon	wa	one-zero	<=1 other	0, 1 2, 3...
Waray	war		Default
Wallisian	wls		Default
Wolof	wo		Default
Wu Chinese	wuu		Default
Kalmyk	xal		Default
Xhosa	xh		Default
Mingrelian	xmf		Default
Eastern Yiddish	ydd		Default
Yiddish	yi		Default
Yoruba	yo		Default
Ненэцяʼ вада	yrk		Default
Nheengatu	yrl		Default
Maaya T'aan	yua		Default
Cantonese	yue	default	Default
Zhuang	za		Default
Zeelandic	zea		Default
Chinese	zh	default	Default
Zulu	zu		Default

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