Plural Noun Revisions?

After receiving some feedback and doing some thinking, I am considering changing how my nouns form their plurals, mainly in non-nominative cases.  I am going to use the masculine noun deru, man, to illustrate the current declension of nouns that end in a vowel.

Case Singular Plural
nominative deru derun
accusative deruk derukum
genitive derus derusum
dative deruc derucum
instrumental deruv deruvum
allative deruts derutsum
ablative derud derudum
locative deruks deruksum


I may nix the -um and place the case marker after a plural marker -n. =>

case    plural 
nominative derun 
accusative derunk 
genitive deruns* 
dative derunc* 
instrumental derunv* 
allative derunts* 
ablative derund 
locative derunks* 

With my current phonotactics, the genitive, dative, instrumental, allative and locative plurals would end in illegal consonant clusters.  This could be solved with an epenthetic –ï [I] or by reduplicating the last vowel:

case    pl option 1 – epenthetic vowel pl option 2 – reduplication
nominative derun  derun
accusative derunk  derunk
genitive derunsï  derunsu
dative deruncï  deruncu
instrumental derunvï derunvu
allative deruntsï  deruntsu
ablative derund  derund
locative derunksï  derunksu


The second option would keep all plurals from appearing identical, at least in their surface form, although the underlying form would be -n(case ending)R where R is a reduplicated vowel.  Whichever manner I choose, I would need to decide to the leave the other forms ending in a consonant or if I would add the same vowel by analogy:

case    pl option 2 pl option 2 w/ regularity by analogy
nominative derun derunu
accusative derunk derunku
genitive derunsu derunsu
dative deruncu deruncu
instrumental derunvu derunvu
allative deruntsu deruntsu
ablative derund derundu
locative derunksu derunksu 


Even with this change, this wouldn't preclude the inclusion of other irregularities, like nouns that have some other plural marker, or nouns that use a different stem altogether in the the plural forms.  Decisions, decisions…

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