Both the locative and the ergative cases are marked with the suffix <-e> or <-ʔe>. The first form occurs most often after a consonant, the second after a vowel, but the scribe has not been consistent.

The ergative/locative case marks the agent of a transitive verb or the noun phrase that indicates location or destination of the action.

The absolutive case is unmarked. Subjects of intransitive verbs and patients of transitive verbs take the absolutive case.

A ditranstitive verb shows agreement with both agent and patients. The agent is the most salient actant of the transitive verb; the patients are all the other actants. The order of verb agreement suffixes follows the order of the actants in the phrase.

The instrument case indicates the instrument, implement or means with which an action is enacted or takes place.

The genetive case indicates the broad range of meanings associated with possession or association, including that of adjectival relationships and nominal compounds and dative cases.

The vocative case is used in directly addressing entities possessed of a soul, such as animals, humans, gods and personified ideas or objects. Use of the vocative is obligatory in the imperative.

The comitative case indicates both accompaniment and coordination between nominal arguments.

The ornative case indicates that one nominal referent is endowed, equiped or ornamented with the other.

The ablative case indicates a spatial or figuratively distant relation, such as 'from', 'via', 'through' or 'by means of'.

The comparative case consists of the locative/ergative suffix <-(ʔ)e> and the suffix <ta> and is used in comparisons. Comparative adjectives (e.g. se.gəp.ga-ʔeta-kə 'thicker' (be-thick.CMP.GEN) are formed with both the comparative and the gentitive suffixes.