Reorganization of noun genders/classes

In all of my conlangs with noun gender or class, I’ve used stem vowel (or lack thereof) to indicate gender.  I am considering using some other ending not including the stem vowel to indicate noun class.  My latest language, called Shonkasikas (“Mountain Speech”), has various patterns for noun declension patterns based on the ‘full stem’ …

The -al declension

I have decided to add even more variation to the noun/adjective declension system.  For nouns whose nominative singular form ends in –r, the plural morpheme changes to –al instead of –ar.  We’ll use the noun ayndir light, to demonstrate it. Case Singular Plural nominative ayndir ayndiral accusative ayndirïk ayndiralga genitive ayndirïs ayndirazla dative ayndirïc ayndiralja …

Rayanese Determiners and Animacy

I am considering having some of Rayanese determiners differentiate for animacy, as the 3rd person pronouns already do:   singular plural 3p animate ko* jo 3p inanimate so ho I have already decided to change the 3p animate singular pronoun from lo to ko.  I think it would be neat to have these pronouns double …

Possession

Rayanese possession isn’t anything special.  Rayanese uses possessive determiners and pronouns derived from the genitive standard personal pronouns.  I did change the personal pronouns mainly to have distinct plural stems for the 3rd person forms.  Here is the new set of personal pronouns (leaving out the reflexive and reciprocal forms):   singular plural 1st mo …