[1] Perhaps due to the small speaker base, there are no significant dialects present within Kuot.

Lenition in some Austronesian languages of New Ireland, namely Lamasong, Madak, Barok, Nalik, and Kara, may have diffused via influence from Kuot (Ross 1994: 566).

[4] Kuot is an endangered language and most children, if not all, grow up speaking Tok Pisin instead.

Kuot is the only Papuan language that has VSO word order, similar to Irish and Welsh.

There are two grammatical genders, male and female, and distinction is made in the first person between singular, dual, and plural, as well as between exclusive and inclusive.

For instance, the sentence parak-oŋ ira-ruaŋ kamin literally means 'my father eats sweet potato'.