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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 the 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
nominative	tɬūβ	tɬūβu	mū	muj
accusative	tɬūβɴ	tɬūβuɴ	mūɴ	mujɴ
gen.-dat.	tɬūβuɟ	tɬūβuɟ	mūɟ	mujuɟ
instrumental	tɬūβiq	tɬūβuq	mūq	mujiq
locative	tɬūβaʈ	tɬūβuʈ	mūʈ	mujaʈ