It is closest to the prestige variety of Dogon, Jamsay tegu, though speakers deny they are related and understand little of it.
Hochstetler report difficulties in comprehension between Tɔrɔ tegu and one of the western Plains Dogon languages, Tomo kan.
The tone melody of a word may be overridden by inflectional morphology or syntax.
In words for humans with a basic CV- stem, the singular suffix is -r̃ú.
In words for humans with longer stems, the singular suffix is -nú or apocopated -ń.