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.