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Nouns are declined for number with different models, depending on the class to which they belong:

Consonantal class: The last vowel is reduplicated and placed at the end of the word. If this vowel is long, its reduplicated form is shortened.
Vocalic class: If the noun ends in a short vowel, this vowel is lenghtened. If the last vowel is long, this vowel undergoes breaking or diphthongization. The vowel ə does not undergo any change.

Examples:

sing. tɬʼīx → plur. tɬʼīxi

sing. gāβra → plur. gāβrā

sing. βā → plur. βwa

There is, however, a certain amount of irregularities and exceptions to these rules. For example:

sing. βūβ → plur. βujβ

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

¹ This ending display two possible forms. The latter is used after a nasal consonant, the former is used in every other case.

Due to pluralization process, nouns can shift from a class to the other one. In this case the proper desinence to the new last phoneme are used.

Some examples are shown below: a consonantal class (in the singular) noun, tɬūβ, house, and a vocalic class (in the singular) noun, mū, cow.

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-| || colspan="2" | <center>romex</center> || colspan="2" | <center>tōmex</center>
+| || colspan="2" | <center>tɬūβ</center> || colspan="2" | <center>mū</center>
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 | style="width: 100px;"| || style="width: 80px;"|<center><small>''singular''</small></center>  || style="width: 80px;"|<center><small>''plural''</small></center> || style="width: 80px;"|<center><small>''singular''</small></center>  || style="width: 80px;"|<center><small>''plural''</small></center>