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Dundulanyä nouns generally do not end in long vowels; the few exceptions that do (generally of onomatopoeic or baby talk origin) are treated as irregular nouns. The most common nouns ending in long vowels are certainly ''amamū'' "mother" and ''atabū'' (or ''batū'') "father", which (due to regular saṃdhi) have ''ūv'' before vocalic endings (e.g. ergative plural ''amamūvām''), but an irregular direct plural in ''-ūv-i'', i.e. ''amamūvi'', ''atabūvi'', ''batūvi''.

The ''-ṛ'' declension diverges from those ending in other vowels in various forms, such as the direct singular, where nouns end in ''-ar'' instead of the simple vowel ''-ṛ'':

The ''-ṛ'' declension diverges from those ending in other vowels in various forms, such as the direct singular, where nouns end in ''-ah'' (''-ar'', reduced to the corresponding soft consonant) instead of the simple vowel ''-ṛ''; their lemma form is in fact identical in shape to ''-ah'' nouns, although adding particles reveals the true nature of the final consonant (cf. ''ñältah, ñältahbu'' "sister, my sister"; ''śuthah, śutharbu'' "husband, my husband"; ''ñältahin śutharin'' "either [the] sister or [the] husband"):

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! Direct

| '''~~śuthar~~''' || rowspan=2 | śuthṛve || rowspan=2 | śuthāri

| '''śuthah''' || rowspan=2 | śuthṛve || rowspan=2 | śuthāri

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! Vocative

| ~~śuthār~~

| śuthāh

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! Ergative

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! Bound form

| ~~śuthar~~ || śuthru || ~~śuthār~~

| śuthah || śuthru || śuthāh

|}

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