There are four noun classes (human, animal, vegetable, mineral), three cases (nominative/accusative/oblique), and two numbers (singular/plural). There are two states: absolute and construct, the latter used when the noun has a possessor or an attributive adjective.

Plurals are formed by case ending for humans and reduplication for everything else. Humans and animals (classes I and II) are nominative-accusative aligned; classes III and IV ergative-absolutive.

The construct state is formed by backshift of the stress; if the stress of the singular stem is initial, a prefix ye- is added. (This is essentially an infix bound to the pre-stress syllable that attaches a stress.)

Class I
Class I endings

	sg.	pl.	
nom.	—	-V
acc.	-t	-Vt	
obl.	-y	-Vy	

Paradigm (phonemic)

	absolute	construct
	sg	pl	sg		pl
nom.	kʰát	kʰatá	yékʰat		kʰáta	
acc.	kʰátet	kʰatát	yékʰatet	kʰátat
obl.	kʰátey	kʰatáy	yékʰatey	kʰátay

Paradigm (phonetic)

	absolute	construct
	sg	pl	sg		pl
nom.	kʰá:t	kʰatá	yə́kʰat		kʰáta	
acc.	kʰátət	kʰatát	yə́kʰatət	kʰátat
obl.	kʰáti	kʰatáy	yə́kʰati		kʰátay

The plural ending -V agrees with the root vowel in height. This vowel was originally *e in Pre-Miar and triggers irregular consonant mutation on a small subset of common words: sg. mḗk 'wife', pl. ṃcé, due to a rule where *RəC > [ṚC-] word-initially if schwa is unstressed.

Class II

Marked nominative. Example is *nes- 'goat'.

Case Endings

nom. -n
acc. —
obl. -y

Paradigm (phonemic)

	absolute	construct
	sg.	pl.	sg.	pl.
nom.	nésen	nenésen	yénesen	nénesen
acc.	nḗs	nenés	yénes	nénes
obl.	nésey	nenésey	yénesey	nénesey

Paradigm(phonetic)

	absolute	construct
	sg.	pl.	sg.	pl.
nom.	nə́sṇ	ṇnə́sṇ	yə́nsṇ	nə́nsṇ
acc.	nə́:s	ṇnə́s	yə́nəs	nə́nəs
obl.	nə́si	ṇnə́si	yə́nsi	nə́nsi

Class III
Class III and IV have only absolutive and oblique cases, with the same case endings. Example sʷeˀd 'tree'.

Case Endings

abs. —
obl. -y

Paradigm (phonemic)

	absolute		construct
	sg.	pl.		sg.		pl.
abs.	sʷéˀd	sʷesʷéˀd	yésʷeˀd		sʷésʷeˀd
obl.	sʷéˀdey	sʷesʷéˀdey	yésʷeˀdey	sʷésʷeˀdey

This paradigm shows off two other phonoogical rules: *CʷəC > [CuC] if the schwa is unstressed, and *-ˀD > [-:T] word-finally.

	absolute		construct
	sg.	pl.		sg.	pl.	
abs.	swə́:t	suswə́:t		yə́su:t	swə́su:t
obl.	swə́ʔdi	suswə́ʔdi	yə́suʔdi	swə́suʔdi

Class IV
Functionally the same as Class III, except that the oblique ending is -n rather than -y. Paradigm spaŋ- 'stick'. Note that reduplication of sC- clusters is CəsC-.

Case Endings

abs. —
obl. -n

Paradigm (phonemic)

	absolute		construct
	sg.	pl.		sg.		pl.
abs.	spáŋ	pespáŋ		yéspaŋ		péspaŋ
obl.	spáŋen	pespáŋen	yéspaŋen	péspaŋen

Paradigm (phonetic)

	absolute		construct
	sg.	pl.		sg.		pl.
abs.	spá:ŋ	pəspáŋ		yə́spaŋ		pə́spaŋ
obl.	spáŋṇ	pəspáŋṇ		yə́spaŋṇ		pə́spaŋṇ

Compounding

Compounds are head-final and stressed on the head; e.g. neskhán- 'goatman'.

	absolute		construct
	sg.	    pl.		sg.	    pl.
nom.    neskʰán     neskʰaná    néskʰan     neskʰána
acc.	neskʰánt    neskʰantá   néskʰant    neskʰánta
obl.	neskʰáney   neskʰanáy   néskʰaney   neskʰánay