• In linguistics, singulative number and collective number (abbreviated SGV and COL) are terms used when the grammatical number for multiple items is the...
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  • (general) gotiiččo - "hyena" (singulative) In some languages like Afar, few nouns have a three-way contrast of general/singulative/plurative, but nouns with...
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    while others (-enti, -er, -ez, -ezh, -ezon, -i, -eg, -ell, and the singulative -enn) are feminine. The suffix -eg can be masculine or feminine. There...
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  • mutations. In addition to the singular–plural system, it also has a singulative–collective system, similar to Welsh. Unlike the other Brittonic languages...
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  • item. These cases are described with the terms collective number and singulative number. Some languages may possess a massive plural and a numerative...
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    singular with ekə, and do not mark the plural. This can be interpreted as a singulative number. On the left hand side of the table, plurals are longer than singulars...
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    Rūm (Arabic: روم [ruːm], collective; singulative: رومي Rūmī [ˈruːmiː]; plural: أروام ʼArwām [ʔarˈwaːm]; Persian: روم Rum or رومیان Rumiyān, singular رومی...
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  • single suffix being generally productive. Some nouns are marked with a singulative suffix, some with a plural suffix, some with both, and a few with irregular...
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    The determiner has two senses: numerical one (I have one apple) and singulative one (one day I'll do it). One is also a gender-neutral pronoun used to...
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    the plural, and two endings to indicate the singular (technically the singulative) of some nouns. In spoken Welsh, verbal features are indicated primarily...
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