GnuGettext Documetation and Turkish

[onuryalazi]

Hello, 
First of all i have to admit i do not know whether any body had ever mentioned 
about these or not. 


I've just started to read the gettext documentation which informs the reader 
about l10n of plural forms is a known problem. So gettext uses some form of 
functions to override these. And also it includes some "plural i10n rules of 
some language families". 
Well shortly The matter is Turkish is said  to use one single form of words for 
singular and plural. 
(http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_chapter/gettext_10.html#SEC150)

But as a native Turkish speaker i do know that this is not the case.  In 
Turkish (well i do speak just for Turkish not for Turkic/Altaic Language 
Family) we use 1 form for singular words  and 2 forms for plural words. It's 
just gained with  "lar" or "ler" postfix. The chose is made according to vowels 
of the word. Well this is related to some wovel similarity rules which is just 
a matter for the translator.  

some samples :

english singular > single form    >   plural form
file > dosya  > dosya lar
plum > erik  > erik ler

Well i do not know if this information is handy. thank you.. 

PS: Sorry for bothering you.

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Onur Yalazi

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Onur Yalazi