This is a list of the plural forms, as used by Gettext PO, that are appropriate to each language.
If your language isn't represented -- please add it, or if the information is inaccurate or inadequate in some way -- please edit it. The Plural information is usually very hard to find and also in many ways hard for a new localiser to understand. So please see this as a repository that can help localisers. Understanding how the Gettext functions use plural forms will help you design a correct plural form.
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Launchpad also has plural information for many languages, please add it here if your language is missing.
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Mozilla now also uses plural forms. Although they follow a slightly different form, the underlying equations seem to be the same as those used by Gettext.
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Unicode CLDR also collects plural information for many languages (also in XML form).
| ISO | English name | Plurals header in .po files |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
| ach | Acholi | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| af | Afrikaans | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| ak | Akan | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| am | Amharic | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| an | Aragonese | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| anp | Angika | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| ar | Arabic [1] | nplurals=6; plural=(n==0 ? 0 : n==1 ? 1 : n==2 ? 2 : n%100>=3 && n%100<=10 ? 3 : n%100>=11 ? 4 : 5); |
| arn | Mapudungun | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| as | Assamese | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| ast | Asturian | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| ay | Aymará | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| az | Azerbaijani | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| B | ||
| be | Belarusian | nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2); |
| bg | Bulgarian | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| bn | Bengali | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| bo | Tibetan | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| br | Breton | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| brx | Bodo | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| bs | Bosnian | nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2); |
| C | ||
| ca | Catalan | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| cgg | Chiga | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| cs | Czech | nplurals=3; plural=(n==1) ? 0 : (n>=2 && n<=4) ? 1 : 2; |
| csb | Kashubian | nplurals=3; plural=(n==1) ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2; |
| cy | Welsh | nplurals=4; plural=(n==1) ? 0 : (n==2) ? 1 : (n != 8 && n != 11) ? 2 : 3; |
| D | ||
| da | Danish | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| de | German | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| doi | Dogri | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| dz | Dzongkha | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| E | ||
| el | Greek | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| en | English | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| eo | Esperanto | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| es | Spanish | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| es_AR | Argentinean Spanish | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| et | Estonian | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| eu | Basque | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| F | ||
| fa | Persian | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| ff | Fulah | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| fi | Finnish | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| fil | Filipino | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| fo | Faroese | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| fr | French | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| fur | Friulian | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| fy | Frisian | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| G | ||
| ga | Irish | nplurals=5; plural=n==1 ? 0 : n==2 ? 1 : (n>2 && n<7) ? 2 :(n>6 && n<11) ? 3 : 4; |
| gd | Scottish Gaelic | nplurals=4; plural=(n==1 || n==11) ? 0 : (n==2 || n==12) ? 1 : (n > 2 && n < 20) ? 2 : 3; |
| gl | Galician | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| gu | Gujarati | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| gun | Gun | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| H | ||
| ha | Hausa | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| he | Hebrew | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| hi | Hindi | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| hne | Chhattisgarhi | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| hr | Croatian | nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2); |
| hu | Hungarian | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| hy | Armenian | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| I | ||
| ia | Interlingua | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| id | Indonesian | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| is | Icelandic | nplurals=2; plural=(n%10!=1 || n%100==11); |
| it | Italian | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| J | ||
| ja | Japanese | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| jbo | Lojban | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| jv | Javanese | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 0); |
| K | ||
| ka | Georgian | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| kk | Kazakh | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| kl | Greenlandic | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| km | Khmer | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| kn | Kannada | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| ko | Korean | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| ku | Kurdish | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| kw | Cornish | nplurals=4; plural=(n==1) ? 0 : (n==2) ? 1 : (n == 3) ? 2 : 3; |
| ky | Kyrgyz | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| L | ||
| lb | Letzeburgesch | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| ln | Lingala | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| lo | Lao | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| lt | Lithuanian | nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2); |
| lv | Latvian | nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n != 0 ? 1 : 2); |
| M | ||
| mai | Maithili | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| me | Montenegro | nplurals=3; plural=n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2; |
| mfe | Mauritian Creole | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| mg | Malagasy | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| mi | Maori | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| mk | Macedonian | nplurals=2; plural= n==1 || n%10==1 ? 0 : 1; Can't be correct needs a 2 somewhere |
| ml | Malayalam | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| mn | Mongolian | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| mni | Manipuri | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| mnk | Mandinka | nplurals=3; plural=(n==0 ? 0 : n==1 ? 1 : 2); |
| mr | Marathi | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| ms | Malay | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| mt | Maltese | nplurals=4; plural=(n==1 ? 0 : n==0 || ( n%100>1 && n%100<11) ? 1 : (n%100>10 && n%100<20 ) ? 2 : 3); |
| my | Burmese | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| N | ||
| nah | Nahuatl | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| nap | Neapolitan | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| nb | Norwegian Bokmal | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| ne | Nepali | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| nl | Dutch | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| nn | Norwegian Nynorsk | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| no | Norwegian (old code) | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| nso | Northern Sotho | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| O | ||
| oc | Occitan | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| or | Oriya | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| P | ||
| pa | Punjabi | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| pap | Papiamento | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| pl | Polish | nplurals=3; plural=(n==1 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2); |
| pms | Piemontese | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| ps | Pashto | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| pt | Portuguese | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| pt_BR | Brazilian Portuguese | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| R | ||
| rm | Romansh | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| ro | Romanian | nplurals=3; plural=(n==1 ? 0 : (n==0 || (n%100 > 0 && n%100 < 20)) ? 1 : 2); |
| ru | Russian | nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2); |
| rw | Kinyarwanda | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| S | ||
| sah | Yakut | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| sat | Santali | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| sco | Scots | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| sd | Sindhi | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| se | Northern Sami | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| si | Sinhala | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| sk | Slovak | nplurals=3; plural=(n==1) ? 0 : (n>=2 && n<=4) ? 1 : 2; |
| sl | Slovenian | nplurals=4; plural=(n%100==1 ? 0 : n%100==2 ? 1 : n%100==3 || n%100==4 ? 2 : 3); |
| so | Somali | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| son | Songhay | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| sq | Albanian | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| sr | Serbian | nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2); |
| su | Sundanese | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| sv | Swedish | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| sw | Swahili | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| T | ||
| ta | Tamil | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| te | Telugu | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| tg | Tajik | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| th | Thai | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| ti | Tigrinya | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| tk | Turkmen | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| tr | Turkish | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| tt | Tatar | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| U | ||
| ug | Uyghur | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| uk | Ukrainian | nplurals=3; plural=(n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2); |
| ur | Urdu | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| uz | Uzbek | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| V | ||
| vi | Vietnamese | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| W | ||
| wa | Walloon | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
| wo | Wolof | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| Y | ||
| yo | Yoruba | nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1); |
| Z | ||
| zh | Chinese [2] | nplurals=1; plural=0; |
| zh | Chinese [3] | nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1); |
Footnotes
| [1] | http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Plural_Forms |
| [2] | zh means all districts and all variants of Chinese, such as zh_CN, zh_HK, zh_TW and so on. |
| [3] | In rare cases where plural form introduces difference in personal pronoun (such as her vs. they, we vs. I), the plural form is different. |