| Third level | Commentary on description | |
| Research history | Place of the present description | |
| Preface, cooperators |
Introduction: Purpose, structure |
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| Second level | Description | |||||
| Language system | Setting of the language | |||||
| Significative system | Language name | Ethnographic setting | Genetic situation | Social situation | Cultural situation | |
| Lexicon | Grammar | |||||
| Expressive systems | ||||||
| Phonology Phonetics |
Writing | |||||
| First level | Texts and communicative events | ||
| Texts | Elicited material | ||
- Appendices
- Glossary of grammatical terms
- Index of terms
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography