I’m continuing to work on Rayanese noun plurals. I have gotten to having two main noun (and adjective) declensions, one with plurals in –ar (basically nouns whose nominative singular form ends in a consonant) and one with plurals in –n (nominative singulars end in a vowel). I’ll use the nouns huz male twin and deru man to illustrate where I’ve gotten to:
Current plural forms (-ar and –n declinations respectively):
| nominative | huzara | derunu | 
| accusative | huzarka | derunku | 
| genitive | huzarsa | derunsu | 
| dative | huzarca | deruncu | 
| instrumental | huzarva | derunvu | 
| allative | huzartsa | deruntsu | 
| ablative | huzarda | derundu | 
| locative | huzarksa | derunksu | 
The consonantal suffixes that represent the non-nominative cases are unchanged from the singular forms. I am considering voicing some of them to differentiate them a bit more from the singular form:
huz (-ar declension)
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | huz | huzara | 
| accusative | huzïk | huzarga | 
| genitive | huzïs | huzarza | 
| dative | huzïc | huzarja | 
| instrumental | huzïv | huzarva | 
| allative | huzïts | huzardza | 
| ablative | huzïd | huzarda | 
| locative | huzïks | huzarksa | 
deru (-n declension)
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | deru | derunu | 
| accusative | deruk | derungu | 
| genitive | derus | derunzu | 
| dative | deruc | derunju | 
| instrumental | deruv | derunvu | 
| allative | deruts | derundzu | 
| ablative | derud | derundu | 
| locative | deruks | derunksu | 
I am still not sure if I want to voice those consonants. In the future, I may also have more declensions just make the language appear less regular.
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