| ! | (marks song vocables without referential meaning) |
| (BEN-) | benefactive (after reflexive; realized as zero) |
| (surprise).F | surprise |
| 1 | 1st person |
| 2 | 2nd person |
| 3 | 3rd person |
| ADV | adverb (-forming suffix) |
| AG | agent |
| ALNBL | alienable possession |
| ASSR | assertive |
| ATTEN | attenuative |
| BELIEVE | believe |
| BEN | benefactive |
| CAUS | causative |
| CJCTR | conjectural |
| COLL | collective |
| COM | comitative (transitive derivative of motion verbs) |
| CONSQ | consequential |
| CPL | completed |
| CTR | contrastive (pronoun) |
| CTRF | counterfactual |
| DAT | dative |
| DECADE | (in numerals) |
| DECL | declarative |
| DEF | definite article |
| DEF.PST | past definite article |
| DESID | desiderative (‘want to, feel like’) |
| DIM | diminutive |
| DUB.Q | dubitative question |
| DUR | durative |
| EMOT | emotive |
| EMPH | emphatic |
| EVID | evidential |
| F | female speaker |
| FAM | familiar |
| IDENT | identificational copula |
| IDF | indefinite article |
| IDF.RL | indefinite relative clause marker |
| IMPATIENT | impatient |
| IMV | imperative |
| INCH | inchoative |
| INDP | independent (pronoun) |
| INSTR | instrumental prefix (specific prefixes distinguished as “INSTR1”, “INSTR2”, etc.; not always segmented) |
| INT.CAUS | intentional causative |
| INTERJ | interjection |
| INTERROG | interrogative |
| IRR | irrealis |
| IRR[San] | irrealis (Santee form) |
| LOC | locative (prefix on verbs; specific prefixes distinguished as “LOC1”, “LOC2”, “LOC3”; not always segmented) |
| LOCN | location (prefix on postpositions and adverbs; often not segmented)) |
| M | male speaker |
| NEG | negative |
| NEG.IDF | negative indefinite |
| NSPC | nonspecific article |
| OBJECTION | objection |
| ORD | ordinal |
| PAT | patient |
| PL | plural |
| POSS | possessive |
| POSSD | possessed |
| Q | question enclitic |
| QUOT | quotative |
| RCP | reciprocal |
| RDP | reduplication |
| REQ | request |
| REQ | request |
| RFL | reflexive |
| RFL.PS | reflexive possessive |
| RHET.Q | rhetorical question |
| RPT | repetitive |
| SIM | similative |
| STRONG.ASSR | strong assertion |
| UNSP | unspecified patient |
| VOC | vocative stem |
| WISH | wish |
| [San] | Santee form |
| at | at (locative suffix) |