High tone
nįnį ‘human baby; tiny tot’ niéǒ ‘female [human]’ kįkį ‘onamatopoeic word imitative of cock’s crowing’ cąhm ‘bride’ kąrį ‘dust’ vẫhó ‘plantain; banana’ į ‘to climb up [as a mountain]’
Lower High tone
pįpă ‘to carry baby pick-a-back’ chélģ ‘family’ ōtp ‘grand daughter’ kąsăó ‘friend [male]’ kņkhǒ ‘embrace [n]’ ōĭ ‘clay’ pfǒǒ ‘male [human]’
Mid tone
ōnō ‘husband’s elder brother’s wife’ ōcǒ ‘husband’ pfǒōmį ‘male [s]’ ōkhrāyĭ ‘mistress ; paramour’ phōdū ‘male [as of bovine quadrupeds viz. yaks, mithuns, buffaloes]’ phģkhū ‘cactus’
Low tone
ģz ‘bud’ pģtņ ‘cucumber’ mąrģǒ ‘kind of plant, wild and eaten boiled’ ģmčrī ‘onion’ pģkrģ ‘silk cotton’ ōvņ ‘1  pig               2.  ginger’
2.1.3.	All the four tones can occur in single lexical units.
e.g.         ģlāihó ‘bean [generic] ōhihóp ‘young sister’
2.1.4	Tones may free-vary as in
ōkį ‘distance’ ōkā
2.2	Vowels
2.2.1	The phonetic inventory of Mao Naga vowels is
i u U I e  o e E a
[i] is the high front unrounded vowel. In atypical articulation of this vowel, the front of the tongue is raised towards the hard palate quite high, if not as high as for the cardinal vowel no.1 [F1 300 Hz]. Concomitantly, the velum is raised and the lips spread.
It is distributed initially, medially and finally. It, however, has a limited word-initial incidence.
Initial
ģdz ‘testicle’ ģkhrūm ‘bachelor’ ģz ‘bud’ ģvą ‘kind of grass’ ģkhrǒ ‘koeleria glauca’ ģprpį ‘ground mushroom, grey and hard, and with parasol,one of various kinds’
Medial
mkh ‘smoke’ phh ‘shoot [as with spear] bąmĭǒ ‘finger’ pš ‘hair [of head]’ ģr ‘whirl pool’
Final
ōcģ ‘rock’ h ‘footprint’ tōpr   ‘kitchen garden’