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Inuit is plural; Inuk is singular
by helloooooooo 5y ago
Inuit is plural; Inuk is singular
- Enk1du 5y agoand Inuak is dual (in the Baffin Island dialect[0], if I extrapolate correctly - a little knowledge is a dangerous thing) for when you need to talk about 2 people, because why _wouldn't_ you need a dual case. Wonderful language. Wish I had more tuits. [0] Inuit Languages and Dialects by Louis-Jacques Dorais, Nunavut Arctic College, 2003
- astrange 5y agoArabic also has dual cases. A strange thing I've found is that while ICU has all kinds of support for proper localization of plurals if you have a number in your UI, if there's no number then you still have to write `if (n == 1) singular else plural;`. Is that really serving people who want a dual/few/many distinction?