I posted thoughts on possible revisions to the plural forms of nouns (and adjectives) that end in vowels. In this post, I will take a look at those that end in consonants. I will use the masculine noun huz male twin in these examples. (Excuse the formatting. This post is copied from another page).
Here is the current declension chart:
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| nominative | huz | huzï |
| accusative | huzïk | huzïkum |
| genitive | huzïs | huzïsum |
| dative | huzïc | huzïcum |
| instrumental | huzïv | huzïvum |
| allative | huzïts | huzïtsum |
| ablative | huzïd | huzïdum |
| locative | huzïks | huzïksum |
The current system has an epenthetic vowel –ï between the noun stem and the case endings, and then a special plural marker -um after the case marker in non-nominative cases. I think that if I follow the pattern of the vowel declension, I should put a plural marker before the case marker and see what happens. I think I will use a different plural marker: -ar. For the time being, I will leave the singular declension the same.
| case | with -ar pl marker |
| nominative | huzar |
| accusative | huzark |
| genitive | huzars |
| dative | huzarc* |
| instrumental | huzarv |
| allative | huzarts* |
| ablative | huzard |
| locative | huzarks* |
*These versions end in illegal consonant clusters according to current phonotactics. I can solve that problem by reduplicating the vowel of the plural marker, –a.
| case | with -ar pl marker |
| nominative | huzar |
| accusative | huzark |
| genitive | huzars** |
| dative | huzarca |
| instrumental | huzarv** |
| allative | huzartsa |
| ablative | huzard |
| locative | huzarksa |
**These consonant clusters are technically legal in syllable codas in Rayanese, but seeing them here, I am not sure that I care for them. I may have to revise my phonotactics! Or perhaps, I can let them remain legal, but rare, and have all plural forms in this declension adopt the reduplicative -a by analogy:
| case | with -ar pl marker |
| nominative | huzara |
| accusative | huzarka |
| genitive | huzarsa |
| dative | huzarca |
| instrumental | huzarva |
| allative | huzartsa |
| ablative | huzarda |
| locative | huzarksa |
More decisions must be made!