Plural form information for Wayuu

Rolando, have you worked out the plural form information yet? See <https://help.launchpad.net/RosettaFAQ#head-168f69f965337a49d0ca9a0c69da7fee29100bd5>.

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Hello Matt, Yes I did find a Meeting with 2 Language Professors that will help us with it, the interview will be the next Friday 15, they are in the UCV (Universidad Central de Venezuela - Central Venezuelan University) When I have this answer I will post it ASAP.

I must to tell you that we have aprox. 600 Peoples that will translate to Wayu! :D

We wanna have the System Base and the Open Office, translated to Octuber 2007.

Thanks for your attention

Hi,

Please, could you give us the plural form information as soon as you know it?

Thank you.

Sure, I will

2007/6/19, Carlos Perelló Marín <email address hidden>:
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Well I can' t have the meeting, but I did found It, let me know if this help you please.

http://www.rosettaproject.org/archive/guc

http://www.lablaa.org/blaavirtual/geografia/geograf2/wayuu21.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayuu_language

Thanks for your support

That's a lot of information about Wayuu. We don't need to know so much about it but about its rules to write text so we need help from someone that is able to read/write it (I guess you are).

As already requested before, please read the document at:
https://help.launchpad.net/RosettaFAQ#head-168f69f965337a49d0ca9a0c69da7fee29100bd5

so you know the exact information to prepare plural forms information.

For instance, English say: 0 cars, 1 car, 2 cars, 3 cars....

How would that be in Wayuu?

How many ways of writing plural names do it have and in which case is used each one?

Also, is '0' an '1' singular, just '1' or just '0'?

Or maybe you don't have plural forms at all (like Japanese).

You don't need to prepare the formula described in our documentation, just explain it to us and we will try to prepare the formula for you.

Cheers.

Tomorrow effi_jayx will have a meeting with some people that know the lenguage

Hello Maybe I can answer some of it know:

Professor Luz Angel Martín from The University of Zulia writes:

In wayuunaiki, the gender marks are sufixes or prefixes.

These are the sufixes to indicate gender and number:

-KAI: male

-KALÜ: female

-KANA: plural

I would need a word for better ilustration:

Awalaa (means brother). The word is in infinitive form, that's why the final vowel is dobled.

Once you add the sufixes, One of the final vowels is dropped.

· 0 items: Awalaa (brother/sister)

· 1 item: Awalakai (brother) – awalakalü (sister)

· 2 items: Awalakana (sibblings)

· 3 items: Awalakana “ ”

· ...

· n item(s) Awalakana “ “

On that note, There is also a sufix that indicates “collective”, this sufix is –YUU. and if we add it to the word AWALAA we get AWALAYUU which means brotherhood, or group of brothers.

I trully hope this helps

Espero haberte ayudado.

Saludos

Luz

Back to open

I suppose this means 3 forms: one for zero, another for one, and yet another for the rest of the numbers.

Translated to gettext-speak, this'd be something like "(n==0)? 0 : (n==1)? 1 : 2", where you'd use form 0 for zero translations, form 1 for singular translations, and form 2 for the rest.

I've added this information to Launchpad now, but if it sounds incorrect, shout as soon as possible :)

It looks good to me :D, I hadn't received notification on the plural forms.

Fantastic, No let the transaltions begin