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Noun declension

Nouns are declined in case and number by adding the following endings to the base form of the noun:

	1st class		2nd class
	singular	plural	singular	plural
direct	-	-nə	-	-nə
gen.-dat.	-re	-nore	-re	-nore
instrumental			-xa	-noxa
locative			-sah	-nosah

Some examples are shown below: a 1^st class noun, paβu, father, and a 2^nd class noun, sóɣə, house.

	papu		sṓgo
	singular	plural	singular	plural
direct	paβu	paβunə	sóɣə	sóɣənə
gen.-dat.	paβure	paβunore	sóɣəre	sóɣənore
instrumental			sóɣəxa	sóɣənoxa
locative			sóɣəsah	sóɣənosah

As for the rules, the endings for the secondary oblique cases cannot be added to a 1^st class noun.

Nouns ending in a consonant in the singular direct case usually add a euphonic vowel before the endings of the other cases. This vowel is generally -ə-, but other vowels are also possible.

dir. piɣ → g.d. piɣəre, ...
dir. šóneh → g.d. šónehare, ...

Some irregular nouns, conversely, change their last vowel in the root before adding other endings. The commonest changes are e → a, or ə → o. A lot of these nouns display both irregular and regular forms, especially in earlier texts. In modern texts the amount of irregular forms is increasingly limited.

dir. soβe → g.d. soβere or soβare, ...
dir. sanə → g.d. sanəre or sanore, ...