Upper Kuskokwim language

Phonology

Vowels

/ɪ/ may range to either or mid as .

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns are divided into two classes: those which can be possessed, but do not have to be and those which are always possessed.
For the former group, some nouns that are possessed have a change in spelling and pronunciation when they are possessed. For example, the prefix "si-" indicates "my".

Upper Kuskokwim	English
tameł	fishnet
sitamela'	my fishnet
nitamela'	your fishnet
mitamela'	his/her fishnet

However, other nouns that may be possessed do not undergo any sound changes, and instead the possession is indicated either by the separate possessive word sich'i, or by the prefix si-. For example, k'esh becomes sich'i k'esh and tin becomes sitin.
Verbs can be changed into nouns with the suffix -e. This also causes sound changes in some verbs.

Adjectives

There are few adjectives that modify nouns in Upper Kuskokwim. Adjectives are added after nouns, e.g. nilane gwṉ.

Upper Kuskokwim	English
chwh	big
goya	small
gwṉ	dried
hwts'aka	narrow

Syntax

Upper Kuskokwim uses SOV word order. It is a partially inflectional and partially agglutinative language, and a pro-drop language.