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 ===Nouns===
 Proto-Idavic had 3 genders: inanimate (i), animate (a), and abstract (h). The abstract gender evolved to serve honorific functions in Shalaian, hence the abbreviation "h".
-====Declension====
 Nouns declined for four cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive) and three numbers (singular, dual, plural).
 Idavic nouns could have plurals marked with -ā, -ī, and sometimes with ablaut and/or reduplication. Nouns pluralized with a suffix are ''weak nouns'' and nouns pluralized with stem changes are ''strong nouns''. There were broken plurals marked by lengthening the stem vowel; these often developed into lexicalized singular nouns in Shalaian.
+====Animate====
+{| class="bluetable lightbluebg" style=" text-align: center;"
+|+
+|-
+! style="width: 90px;" |
+! style="width: 100px;" | Singular
+! style="width: 100px;" | Dual
+!  style="width: 100px;" | Plural
+|-
+!| Nominative
+| ''-'' || ''-'' || ''-''
+|-
+!| Accusative
+| ''-'' || ''-'' || ''-''
+|-
+!| Dative
+| ''-'' || ''-'' || ''-''
+|-
+!| Genitive
+| ''-'' || ''-'' || ''-''
+|}
+====Inanimate====
+{| class="bluetable lightbluebg" style=" text-align: center;"
+|+
+|-
+! style="width: 90px;" |
+! style="width: 100px;" | Singular
+! style="width: 100px;" | Dual
+!  style="width: 100px;" | Plural
+|-
+!| Nominative
+| ''-'' || ''-'' || ''-''
+|-
+!| Accusative
+| ''-'' || ''-'' || ''-''
+|-
+!| Dative
+| ''-'' || ''-'' || ''-''
+|-
+!| Genitive
+| ''-'' || ''-'' || ''-''
+|}
+====Abstract====
 {| class="bluetable lightbluebg" style=" text-align: center;"
 |+