Huli has a pandanus language called tayenda tu ha illili (bush divide taboo) used for collecting karuka nuts (anga) as well as hunting or traveling.

[2] Huli has a syllable structure of (C)V. /ɑ/ is pronounced more fronted as [æ] before /r/ and /ʝ/.

Vowels can also carry three phonemic tones; high-falling, mid-level, and low-rising.

/d/ is realized as voiceless as [d̥] when occurring word-initially, and is palatalized as [dʲ] between /i/ and a word-final /ɑ/.

/b ɡ/ can be phonetically realized as fricatives intervocalically as [β ɣ].