Below is a table showing the mutual intelligibility in vocabulary between the Kunjen dialects, based on a list of 100 basic words.

[5] A great majority of words begin with a vowel (>96%), similar to the situation in distantly-related Arrernte.

Syllable onsets are thought to be present in all languages, so their absence in native lexicon is highly notable.

As in many other Australian languages, such as Dyirbal, Kunjen also has a respect register, which is a polite way of speaking with a potential mother-in-law and is called Olkel-Ilmbanhthi.

Kunjen has 27 consonants: The Uw Olkola word for the freshwater crocodile, ogakor, was used as the name of a tribe on the second season of the American reality television series, Survivor in 2001.