/a e i o/; < u > represents /w/, and may prove to have been a poor orthographic choice... Vowels contrast for tone and nasalization, and each diacritic codes tone and nasalization simultaneously (hence the profusion of vowel diacritics): /a_1 a~_1 a_2 a~_2 a_3 a~_3/ <á ā a ã à ą>

Plosives and affricates, nasals and /s/ have glottalized forms. Glottalized plosives and affricates may be realized as ejectives (especially beginning words), creaky-voiced, or geminate (only intervocally). Other glottalized consonants are realized as creaky-voiced, or, increasingly, as geminates.

Lateral is /l\/. There is also a random alveolar lateral affricate...

The three basic tones are high, mid (least marked), and low. These may interact with each other and glottalized consonants to produce a complex tonal contour for the lengthier words.

Tone is only used morphologically in the indirect evidential + tense/aspect suffixes.

The only prefixes are the patientive person/number markers, incorporated adverbs and instruments and the rare incorporated object.

Pronomial demonstratives are actual words, while adnomial demonstratives are noun suffixes. Their actual forms are very similar.

There are stative verbs instead of adjectives. Stative verbs are distinct from other verbs in that they are marked for person/number as usual (though almost always marking the modified noun(s) as patients), but usually don't take tense/aspect/evidentiality suffixes and almost always modify nouns without the relative clause marker /ne/.

That mandatory suffix is just person and number marking.

Order of subject and verb is influenced mostly by pragmatics (more topical subjects tend to follow the verb in informal discourse) and somewhat by agency and animacy of the subject (for example, animate agentive subjects are more likely to precede the verb than inanimate patientive subjects, all else being equal).