Plural forms in mapudungun

[Carlos Perelló Marín]

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That means the plural form is not like Spanish...

Sergio, do you agree with that?

With Roberto's email, the plural form expression is 'n > 1' instead of
'n != 1'

For inanimated entries, you will need to translate both plural forms the
same way. For animated ones, you will do two different translations
depending on the number of items.

If you don't agree on which is the right formula, we will need a kind of
official web link for Mapudungun language so we can validate it.

Cheers.

Roberto Bahamonde Andrade escribió:
> Hi:
>    I guess that there is a misundertand (or  the notation is obscure to me).
> 
> Plural forms in Mapudungun follows two patterns
> 
> Inanimated
> 
> 0 "item"
> 1 "item"
> 2 "item"
> 3 "item"
> 4 "item"
> 
> Animated
> 
> 0 "item"
> 1 "item"
> 2 pu "item"
> 3 pu "item"
> 4 pu "item"
> 
> The use of PU is compulsory when an animated item isn't preceded by a
> number.
> 
> Bye
> Roberto Bahamonde
> 
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> 
> 
>     Message: 2
>     Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:59:12 -0300
>     From: Sergio Cayuqueo <scayuqueo at gmail.com <mailto:scayuqueo at gmail.com>>
>     Subject: Plural forms in Mapudungun
>     To: rosetta-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>     <mailto:rosetta-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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>     Hello I'm translating Ubuntu to Mapudungun,
> 
>     example the Mapudungun uses the form
> 
>     - 0 items
>     - 1 item
>     - 2 items
>     - 3 items
>     - 4 items
> 
> 
>     the plural forms are like spanish
> 
>     bye
> 

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