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There appears to be no stable system of making plurals. Egyptian appears to use -w and -wt for its external plural markers. Semitic appears to use vowel lengthening instead. Internal (vowel-grade) plural marking seems to orient around making the noun look different in whatever easy way is possible, at least in some cases. | There appears to be no stable system of making plurals. Egyptian appears to use -w and -wt for its external plural markers. Semitic appears to use vowel lengthening instead. Internal (vowel-grade) plural marking seems to orient around making the noun look different in whatever easy way is possible, at least in some cases. | ||
[http://phoenixblog.typepad.com/blog/2014/02/plural-formations-of-proto-berber.html Berber nouns] appear comparitively neat when it comes to vowel alterations however, and the -n- marker appears to have [http://phoenixblog.typepad.com/blog/2010/06/proto-semitic-case-system-2.html some parallels (at a glance) in Arabic] | [http://phoenixblog.typepad.com/blog/2014/02/plural-formations-of-proto-berber.html Berber nouns] appear comparitively neat when it comes to vowel alterations however, and the -n- marker appears to have [http://phoenixblog.typepad.com/blog/2010/06/proto-semitic-case-system-2.html some parallels (at a glance) in Arabic]. Since we're doing this for conlanging, and not proper reconstruction purposes, let's just assume that -n- was used in plural formation, alongside appropriate vowel shifts. | ||
In the following table, ə = a short vowel. ə in many cases may become /u/, /i/ or /a/ (conditions not known yet). External plural marker seem to possess some concatenating abilities. | |||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="graytable lightgraybg" style="width: 700px; text-align:center;"| | |||
!Plural Type | |||
!Formation | |||
!Alternative | |||
|- | |||
|External #1 | |||
|ROOT- > ROOT-ən- | |||
|a-ROOT- > ə-ROOT-ən- | |||
|- | |||
|External #2 | |||
|ROOT- > ROOT-aw- | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
!External #3 | |||
|ROOT- > ROOT-v̄ (-ū, -ā) | |||
|ROOT- > ROOT-ī | |||
|- | |||
!Broken External #1 | |||
|a-C<sup><small>ə</small></sup>CəC- > ə-CəCC-an | |||
|a-CəC- > ə-CaC-ən- | |||
|- | |||
!Broken External #2 | |||
|əCvC- > aCC-aw- | |||
|əCvC- > aCC-aw-ən | |||
|- | |||
!Broken #1 | |||
| -i- | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|Broken #2 | |||
|} | |||