The designation "Shatt" is an Arabic word meaning "dispersed" and is applied to several distinct groups in the Nuba Mountains.

"Caning" is their own name for themselves, linguistically referred to as endonym, whereas "Shatt" is considered an exonym due to its external ascription.

[5] A noun in Caning "can be a person, animal, place, thing, or idea.

For the second for, when adding the plural suffix only, the singular form remains unchanged.

Some nouns only occur as plurals, e.g. noncountable nouns that refer to masses or liquids: It is noteworthy that Caning has two forms of the pronoun "we" (1st person plural) that could be distinguished by calling them inclusive and exclusive versions.

"[7] (ax = hut) All of the possessive pronouns below can therefore take the place of nämanggo in the above sentence.