The aspects of grammar which reflect singular versus plural but also others more exotic like dual and paucal.
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Are there any languages in which grammatical number changes word order?
This has implications for programmatic localization. The example below isn't universally valid if, for some language, the noun placement must change, or the numerical adjective must be split from the noun.
English template:
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Is there a natural language in which grammatical number is used to denote "all" of something (as distinct from simply "many" of something?)
I am working on a constructed language, and this is a feature I have been considering. My conlang has singular, dual, and plural numbers that function as one would expect. This "omnic" number would denote "all" or "every" of a noun. I'm not entirely…
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