The language possesses five vowels, which are written with different letters depending on whether or not the preceding consonant is palatalization.

The standard language, based on the Moscow dialect, possesses heavy stress and moderate variation in pitch.

The language possesses a fourth mood in addition to the indicative, the imperative and the subjunctive: the suggestive.

The language is not written and possesses no literature corpus.

Since their vocabularies are very similar, it is likely that both languages possess an internationality that extends beyond the Western language families.

Some languages possess a category of words midway between onomatopoeia and usual words.

In this scenario, the two languages may have possessed only limited mutual intelligibility.

The medieval language also possessed two additional tenses for expressing past events and an extended set of possessive suffixes.

The central idea, however, is more general: poetic language possesses specific properties, which can be analyzed as such.