• 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    been lost in Chukchi. Chukotko-Kamchatkan also has a "singulative" ending, and traces of a singulative ending in Nivkh might be seen. Algonquian–Wakashan...
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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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  • take singulative suffixes. A reduction of attested plural suffixes are -oo, -ee, -aa, -ti, -ni, -ii, -ll. -ttii (f) and -ca (m) are the singulative suffixes...
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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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    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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