Editing Grammatical number (section)

===Mortlockese===
The [[Mortlockese language]] of the [[Nomoi Islands|Mortlock Islands]] uses a base 10 counting system. Pronouns, nouns and demonstratives are used exclusively in the singular and plural forms through the use of classifiers, suffixes and prefixes.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ward |first=William Theophilus Thomas |year=1955 |title=A preliminary survey of the economic and social life of the Mortlock Islands people, Eastern Carolines, Trust Territory of Micronesia}}</ref> There are no other dual or trial grammatical forms in the Mortlockese language.<ref>{{cite book |last=Odango |first=Emerson Lopez |title=Afféú Fangani 'Join Together': A Morphophonemic Analysis of Possessive Suffix Paradigms and A Discourse-Based Ethnography of the Elicitation Session in Pakin Lukunosh Mortlockese |publisher=University of Hawaii at Manoa Dissertation |url=http://ling.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/Dissertation_ODANGO-FINAL.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://ling.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/Dissertation_ODANGO-FINAL.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |date=May 2015}}</ref> Different forms that can be used in the language include first person singular and plural words, second person singular words like {{lang|mrl|umwi}}, second person plural words like {{lang|mrl|aumi}} used to refer to an outside group, and third person plural words.<ref>{{cite web |author=University of Hawaii at Manoa Hamilton |title=Narrative and identity construction in the Pacific Islands |website=reader.eblib.com.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu |publisher=Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. |url=http://reader.eblib.com.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/(S(bfec0qwyennsyhjjyoy3lxhr))/Reader.aspx?p=2040187&o=376&u=0GOyKO0ekzLvKJLaSEvKuw%3d%3d&t=1486402464&h=5B6C7F87B4062AECBD899D5821D51EF7A00B310D&s=53250598&ut=1139&pg=1&r=img&c=-1&pat=n&cms=-1&sd=2#}}</ref>