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 ) Magellanican has a singular-plural number system
-) Singular nouns are singular by default and take the plural suffix to indicate more than four instances.
+) Singular nouns are singular by default and take the paucal or plural suffices to indicate more than one instance.
-) Collective nouns indicate more than four instances by default or are mass nouns. They take the singulative suffix to indicate a singular instance or a very small part of the whole.
+) The paucal number mark nouns that are from two to five in number.
-) Magellanican also has a paucal number which is used to mark nouns that are greater than one or fewer than five in number. Also indicates matched sets of entities of any number.
+) The plural number indivstes nouns that are six or more in number.
 ) Number suffixes are summarised in the table below: