Telehe Nouns

Nouns in Telehe decline for five case Nominative, Accusative, Genitive I, Genitive II and Ablative, and five numbers Singular, Plural, Paucal, Dual and Collective, and are categorized into four genders Countable, Uncountable, Inanimate and Animate.

Number
Telehe has loaned a plethora of words and grammatical morphemes from its surrounding languages like Ħautkar and some Koyanic languages, including how Number is expressed in Telehe:
 * Singular is unmarked as it's the default form of the noun.
 * Plural is marked with -n(e).
 * Paucal is Loaned from Ħautkar, it is formed through reduplication of the last syllable of the word ∼CV.
 * Collective is Loaned from Ħautkar, it values an infix in to the word -u- and then adding the suffix -ar. The collective number is sometimes used to talk about a large number, general things or even a lot of beings/objects in general.
 * Dual is an innovation in the history of Telehe it is marked with the prefix or- derived from the numeral two.

Cases
Telehe as an inflected language, i.e. the endings of most of its words change depending on their function in a sentence. Telehe features the following cases Nominative, Accusative, Genitive I & II and Ablative.

As shown bellow, the declensions somewhat shows regularity in this internal system, with some degree of irregularity:
 * NOM uncountable: Vc, animate:Vs/r, inanimate:Vs/r
 * ACC uncountable: Vr/s, animate:Vč, inanimate:Vs/r
 * POSS uncountable: Vr/si, animate:Vl, inanimate:quV
 * DAT uncountable: cVt/s, animate:sV, inanimate:m/mnV
 * ABL uncountable: zb/psV/, animate:p/bV, inanimate:qu/guV̄

priest-NOM eat-3sg-CVB sweet_bread-ACC

'The priest is eating sweet bread'yaš yere-č bode-š

1SG.NOM book-ACC read-1SG

'I read the book'

Genitive
Divided into two Genitives, the genitive I is -l it means nominal dependency and possession, while the genitive II means addressee in dedications, composition, origin and apposition with the suffix -su, sometimes Genitive II assumes dative functions, depending on the phrase and the addressee.tērē-su yom

cow-GEN horn

'cow horn'

Ablative
It indicates a location, where, in, on, at and by, marked with -pu.

Adjectives

 * -yicu - from the root to be similar, it is an suffix similar to the -ly in English.

Some exceptions
Sometimes when two words connect to form a new one and these words form a long string of vowels an intrusive h is inserted between them.