[8] Sora consonants and vowels can undergo a process of sound alternation at prosodic level based on stress-shifts and morphosyntactic conditioned during which the consonants and vowels assimilate to match with the sound of preceding or following stem, or the final nasal with the initial obstruent of the following word.
By doing this, some suffixes will merge with its verb phonotactically and a word can have several allomorphs depending on morphological properties of morpheme initials and codas produced during a casual or rapid speech.
For example, ǝdmǝltijdariŋdae: ǝdNEG-mǝl-DES-tij-give-dar-rice-iŋ-1.UND-da-AUX:TAM-e-3.ACTǝd -mǝl -tij -dar -iŋ -da -eNEG -DES -give -rice -1.UND -AUX:TAM -3.ACT'(he) does not want to give me rice'The grammatically correct form in Sora however requires a subject: aninheǝdNEG-mǝl-DES-tij-give-dar-rice-iŋ-1.UND-da-AUX:TAM-e-3.ACTanin ǝd -mǝl -tij -dar -iŋ -da -ehe NEG -DES -give -rice -1.UND -AUX:TAM -3.ACT'he does not want to give me rice'A full sentence in Sora: Ňen1SGǝdNEG-mǝl-want-jom-eat-jɛl-meat-yɔ-fish-aj-all-t-NPST-en-INTR-ay-SSŇen ǝd -mǝl -jom -jɛl -yɔ -aj -t -en -ay1SG NEG -want -eat -meat -fish -all -NPST -INTR -SS'I don't want to eat all the fish.
'Sora uses grammatical devices, including subject and object agreement, word order, and noun compounding to show case.
[13] The combining form allows the noun to be attached to a verb root to create a more semantically complex word, similar to compounding in other languages.
[14] ətɛŋmanykəndʊd-ən-jifrog-NMLZ-PLətɛŋ kəndʊd-ən-jimany frog-NMLZ-PL'many frogs'si-leŋhand-1PLsi-leŋhand-1PL'our hand(s)'The plural suffix is not attached after countable numerals and finite numbers but it may trigger plural-verb agreement.
A number of grammatical constructions that may or may not be expressed morphologically into an animate primary object argument of the verb, eg.
To signal something masculine/feminine, Sora speakers utilize indigenous compound endings =mar (male, person) and =boj (female) while also use, albeit rarely, gender suffixes borrowed from Indo-Aryan like -a and -i.
[20] Some Sora adverbs are: tiki 'after', tikki 'afterwards', mailen 'together', dɔ 'so', əntɚpsɛlɛ 'therefore', biɲdɔ 'but', bɔibɔi 'very', annɚŋ 'during', nam 'now', aŋaːnʼaŋaːn 'sometimes', moyed 'previous', moyedʼmoyed 'recently', etc.
In typical Munda synthetic structure, the verb phrase in Sora is head-final subject-object-verb SOV.
However, Sora has developed an elaborate and productive noun incorporation system which appears to have originated from an earlier offshoot of proto-Munda.
In polysynthetic morphosyntax, Sora verb phrases display a strict head-first SVO order like those typically seen in non-Munda Austroasiatic languages.
[22] (Donegan & Stampe, 2004) Sora borrows words from surrounding languages like Telugu and Oriya.
[13] Moreover, within the Munda family itself most words appear to be mutually intelligible owing to minor differences in pronunciations and phonology.
Kharia and Korku, two other Munda languages, share mutually intelligible words with Sora.
[12] For example, the number 11 in Kharia is ghol moŋ, in Korku it is gel ḑo miya, and in Sora it is gelmuy.
This phenomenon is not just contained in numbers but rather a great deal of vocabulary is mutually intelligible among the Munda languages.
[9] That means that some words found in Sora are of direct proto-Austroasiatic origin and share similarities with other derived Austroasiatic language families.
[9] Words that relate to the body, family, home, field, as well as pronouns, demonstratives, and numerals are the ones with the most cognates.
Here are the first 12 numerals in the Sora language :[23] English: one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve Sora: aboy bago yagi unji monloy tudru gulji thamji tinji gelji gelmuy migel Similar to how English uses the suffix from the numeral ten after twelve (such as thirteen, fourteen, etc.
[23] The Sora number system was featured in a puzzle by Lera Boroditsky, found in the More Resources section associated with her "TED talk".