Dialects are Tifal (Tifalmin), Urap (Urapmin) and Atbal (Atbalmin).
The Tifal language is bounded by Papuan and Irian Jaya speakers to the south and west, the Telefomin valley in the east, and the Sepik river to the north.
[10] In inflected words stress lies on the last syllable of the verb stem.
[15] Verbs may be separated into four groups based on how they transform from continuative to punctiliar aspect.
[19] Tifal sentences are contain inflected verb-root-chains, often with a final fully conjugated verb.
"up" must be clarified as either "upslope" or "upstream", "down" as "downslope" or "downstream", and "across" as "across land" or "across a river".
Related terms are found in Oksapmin, Mian, and Telefol.