Re: New Conlang

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Kua Sai wrote:
> >
> > Hey, I've started to put pieces of my language, Maltae, on the web.
> > Check out Phonology and Nominal Declensions at
> > http://www.angelfire.com/art2/conlang6/mal.html
>
> The nominal inflections are also a bit unusual.  Where case and number
> are separable, the number affix is usually closer to the noun than the
> case (that is, if they are suffixes, number comes first, if they are
prefixes, number comes second).

I was struck by the relative simplicity of the vowel-final case endings vs.
those of the Consonant-finals. (One would expect a little more
similarity..... though this system is interesting)  Is there some reason for
that? Perhaps C-final nouns are distinguished by class/gender or something
else?