Sinhalese Plural Form

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:48 +0600, Anjula >> Info-share wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
> 

Hi

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> I am afraid I am not familiar about how to read that formula.
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> Anyway, 
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> For both animate and inanimate objects
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> If (n=0, 2, 3, 4,... ∞) its one form 
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> If (n=1) it’s a different form 
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> But the way its written is different for animates and inanimates.
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> Inanimate (Ex:
> Gasa/Tree)
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> Animate (Ex:
> Miniha/Man)
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> n=1
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> Gasak /1 tree
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> Minihek /1 man
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> n=0,1,2,3,.... ∞
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> Gas n’k 
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> Minissu n denek / n men
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> Thanks a lot.
> 

Ok, I misunderstood you. the initial formula you gave me is the right
one. It should be applied on production today.

Cheers.

> Cheers!
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> 
> Anjula
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Perelló Marín [mailto:carlos.perello at canonical.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 12:17 AM
> To: Anjula >> Info-share
> Cc: rosetta-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Sinhalese Plural Form
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> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 16:43 +0600, Anjula >> Info-share wrote:
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> Hi
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> > In Sinhalese (Sri Lankan language), the plural form changes based on
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> > whether the subject is animate or inanimate.
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> > In both cases (inanimate or animate), the singular form is
> different.
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> > ‘zero items’ is generally not used in Sinhalese. But, if using it
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> > should be similar to the plural form.
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> > Ex: 
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> > 1 man               -           minihek (or 1 minihek)
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> > 2 men               -           minissu 2 denek
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> > 5 men               -           minissu 5 denek
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> > (0 men              -           minissu 0 denek)
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> > 1 dog                -           bal’lek (or 1 bal’lek)
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> > 5 dogs              -           ballo 5 denek
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> > 1 book              -           pothak (or 1 pothak)
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> > 5 books             -           poth 5’k
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> > (0 books           -           poth 0’k)
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> > In Sri Lanka we’re taking a great effort to promote OpenSource
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> > software. As you know, the FOSS conference was also held in Sri
> Lanka
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> > this year (www.fosssl.org). We are keen to translate commonly used
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> > OpenSource apps to Sinhalese, the main local language. 
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> > So the formula would be:
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> > n==1 ? 0 : 1 ……….. (but different for animate and inanimate objects)
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> If that's the case, the formula would be:
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> n == 1 ? 0 : n == 5 ? 2 : 1
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> That's 0 elements or 5 elements or whatever elements. If it's an
> animate
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> object, the second and third forms will be the same and differents for
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> inanimated objects.
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> Do we agree? Please, confirm me it and I will add that plural form.
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> Cheers.
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> > Cheers!
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> > Anjula
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