The Valley dialect has the largest inventory of consonants of any Gevey dialect - 30 in total:
 4 voiced plosives [ b d dʲ g ] < b d dj g >
 5 voiceless plosives [ p t tʲ k q ] < p t tj k q >
 4 voiced fricative [ v z ʒ h ] < v z x h >
 5 voiceless fricatives [ f s ʃ x χ ] < f s c gj qj >
 2 rhotics [ r ɹ ] < r rj >
 4 nasals [ m n ɲ ] < m n nj >
 1 approximant [ j ] < y >
 2 lateral approximants [ l ɫ ] < l lj >
 and 2 glides [ ʍ w ] < w wj >

Speakers of the Valley dialect distinguish between 22 vowel sounds composed of:
 11 monophthongs [ æ ɑ e i: ɜ ɪ ɒ ɔ ʌ u ʊ ] < a aa e ee ei i o ao ue uu u >
 3 of which distinguish between short and long forms [ ɑ ɑ: ɔ ɔ: u u: ] < aa ua ao au uu oo >
 and a further 8 diphthongs [ eɪ eə aɪ ɪə əʊ ʊə aʊ ɔɪ ] < ae ai ie ii oe ui ou oi >.

Ratio: 1.36 (30:22)

Both nouns and verbs (and also modifiers) take affixes to show various grammatical features:

gæ.mæʒ de.zde.fjɪ.tlæ.teɪ
gamax dezdefyitlatae

gama-c     dezde  -fyitl-at-ae
people-PL  at     -whispered-PST-PL

people whispered

Gevey verbs can be inflected for the following:
» bound prepositions (all intransitive verbs must be accompanied by at least one preposition, either bound to an oblique object, or to the verb itself)
» conjugation type (which changes according to the grammatical and semantic content of the surrounding clause)
» tense
» subject 'status' (simple, internal, external, inanimate)
» subject number (singular, paucal, plural)

Gevey verbs are required to agree with the 'status' and number of their subjects, but not their direct objects; subjects (agents and experiencers) and direct objects (patients) are overtly marked - subjects take suffixes while direct objects are preceded by an accusative marker word.

Posessor nouns and pronouns generally take the genetive case; Gevey can also use conjunctions to form more complex posessive noun phrases:

ʒæ.blæ.kæ χep məʊ.me.tɒ ten
xablaka qjep moemeto ten

xablaka   qjep  moemeto      te-n
portrait  of    grandmother  my-GEN

My grandmother's portrait

Gevey verbs don't agree with their subject for person or physical gender, only for subject 'status' and number.

Gevey nouns are divided into two classes: 'causative' nouns, and 'applicative' nouns. The division is lexical, and unmarked. 
» 'causative' nouns can act as the subject of any verb taking the active construction
» an 'applicative' noun cannot act as the subject of a verb taking the active construction - where an applicative verb is the subject of a clause, the verb must take either the incidental or stative construction.

Gevey divides nouns into classes based on an animacy hierarchy:
» 'causative' nouns - people, animals, spiritual entities, physical (often cataclysmic) natural events, some body parts, emotions
» 'applicative' nouns - everything else

The sexual gender of a noun, if required, can be demonstrated by adding a gender particle to the noun (or pronoun). Verbs and modifiers are not affected by the sexual gender of their subject or head noun

Every Gevey noun must include its 'status': simple, external, internal or inanimate. The external status may be used to indicate the definiteness of a noun in some circumstances.

Gevey demonstratives cannot be used alone - they must always follow a noun or pronoun:

cuebu telaa
book  this
this book

koiy tuezaa gaelase te
it   that   dislike I
I don't like that

Gevey has two 2nd person singular pronouns: 'de' (general/polite) and 'fle' (informal/intimate)

Gevey reflexive pronouns can be intensified by placing the intensifier marker 'ra' in front of the pronoun:

Dxone     tatj  keq           tcu     roup       ken      drjaaslate 
John-NOM  with  himself-REFL  to-ACC  house-ACC  his-GEN  walked       
John walked home by himself

Dxone     tatj  ra           keq           tcu     roup       ken      drjaaslate 
John-NOM  with  INTENSIFIER  himself-REFL  to-ACC  house-ACC  his-GEN  walked       
Alone, John walked home