Compounding is a productive process in Khembelle Barushlani, and is may involve both nominal and verbal constituents.

Determinitative compounds are generally formed with the determined constitution first, followed by the genitive suffix <-kə> GEN: rəmo:gde.kə.u: 'die.GEN.water', i.e. 'poison'.

Coordinative compounds take the comitative suffix <-gre>: phəyu:ʔ.gre.si:ʔi:bi 'liver.COM.lungs', i.e. 'courage'.