(Lists morphemes, such as affixes, which can be used to make new words from existing roots.)

A (currently undefined) suffix can be added to nouns to refer to a large group or large quantity of that thing 

The suffixes -(ü)ëp and -(ü)ok (see "Vocabulary" below) serve as a diminutive and augmentative respectively.

Verbization Ablaut

The stressed vowel of all open-class parts of speech (e.g., nouns and modifiers) must be front vowels, as all verbs are formed from open-class words after backing and rounding the stressed vowel (with 'æ' > 'a').

Compounds and Blends

There are only two forms of compounds/Blends in Kanhlengo. They both create nouns.

Compounds are endocentric and are derived from a head noun followed by a noun, adjective or modifier. It is written as two words hyphenated. The words are still stressed as separate words, but the second recieving a weaker stress overall.

Blends are exocentric, they are formed by a Verb combined with a Noun, Adjective or modifier. The blend is formed by taking the verb up until and including its ablaut syllable (and optionally the consonant following it if it creates a legal cluster), and suffixing that with as many syllables from the noun/adj/mod starting from the last syllable up until the 4 syllable limit, and not including the first syllable (unless the word is only 1 syllable). Stress remains on the ablaut syllable.

Blends are exceptions to the verb ablaut rule but can still create verbs by taking verbal inflections. for any affixation the whole compound/blend is treated as the root.

Old-fashioned vs. New-fangled

Lexemes can be revamped through these two different affixes:

Ro- (-r) = new-fangled - revi (eye), rorevi (glasses; lit. new-fangled eye)

To- (-t) = old-fashioned - fæñ (helmet, hat), tofæñ (old-fashioned helmet, hat; medieval helmet, top hat)

These are productive affixes so their meaning shall be transparent, the derrived form should therefore have a transparent connection in meaning to the root. 

These derived words are no exception to blends but they are handled differently. Whenever the head noun of a blend has any of these prefixes they are translated into suffixes. So if any of the nouns mentioned above would be the head of a blend they would be derrived as such:

Rorevi = revir

Tofæñ = fæt

This way there is a distinction between the derived lexeme in a blend from the root word. The examples here are not cannon.

Collective Nouns

There are four sorts of collective noun:

1. Collective nouns ending in -i refer to the speakers of a language

2. A collective noun generalizing about most global examples of a noun. This is formed by reduplicating the first vowel of a noun, and adding /p.f/ (pf) between them.

Example: zëpfëgo, birds in general (from zëgo, a bird)

zëpfëgozo hseküoddi zago – “In my experience, birds usually fly”. The examples of ostriches and penguins do not render this sentence false, because it is a generalisation.

3 A collective noun referring to all global examples of a noun. This is formed by reduplicating the first vowel of a noun, and adding /f.x/ (fx) between them.

Example: zëfxëgo, all birds in the world (from zëgo, a bird)

zëfxëgofa hseküoddi zago – “All the birds in the world fly”. This is an untrue sentence, because ostriches and penguins.

4 A collective noun referring to a local group of examples of a noun. This is formed by reduplicating the first vowel of a noun, and adding /s.x/ (sx) between them.

Examples:

zësxëgo, a flock of birds (from zëgo, a bird)

visxitë, a crowd of people (from vitë, a person)

hlësxëno, steppe (from hlëno, a patch of grass)

fisxiüo, a forest (from fiüo, a tree), and of course

ñësxërë, a bunch of linguists, (from ñërë, a linguist)