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Re:Pluralization rules around the world by mormegil on Saturday May 26, 2018 @03:54PM (#17163945)
The source for plural rules (with machine-readable representation) can be found in the Unicode CLDR: http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/33/supplemental/language_...
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Re:Pluralization rules around the world by schoen on Saturday May 26, 2018 @07:47PM (#17164784)
Wow, this is super-awesome!

But I think the Brazilian Portuguese rule in this chart for the cardinal 0 is wrong: I think it should be "other" (0 pontos) rather than "one" (0 ponto), just as in Spanish, English, and European Portuguese.

I've sent a note to a native speaker to check my intuition.

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Re:Pluralization rules around the world by gugagore on Sunday May 27, 2018 @10:40AM (#17167034)
Native speaker and my judgement matches yours. I was surprised to see that on the page.
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Re:Pluralization rules around the world by chipaca on Sunday May 27, 2018 @05:25AM (#17166184)
"it's complicated"
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Re:Pluralization rules around the world by anewhnaccount2 on Sunday May 27, 2018 @03:10AM (#17165873)
If you want to go deeper, there's the Grammatical Framework Resource Grammar Library: https://www.grammaticalframework.org/lib/doc/rgl-publication...
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