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Noun pluralization

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

Noun declension

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

	consonantal class	vocalic class
nominative	-	-
accusative	-ɴ / əɴ1	-ɴ
gen.-dat.	-uɟ	-ɟ
instrumental	-iq	-q
locative	-aʈ	-ʈ

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.

	tɬūβ		mū
	singular	plural	singular	plural
ergative	romex	romēx	tōmex	tōmēx
absolutive	rome	romē	tōme	tōmē
genitive	romefu	romēfu	tōmefu	tōmēfu
dative	romešu	romēšu	tōmešu	tōmēšu
dative	romeho	romēho	tōmeho	tōmēho
instrumental			tōmema	tōmēma
locative			tōmeva	tōmēva