Emotives. Emotives indicate the speaker's inner emotional state. They include cries of:
- discomfort: `uS. ‘Ouch!',
`>iš. ‘Brrr.';
- joy: `eio. ‘Hurray!';
- surprise: `be; ‘Unbelievable!';
- regret: `iârâa; ‘If only!'.
Expletives focus on kinship deficiencies:
- `utra_o. ‘O, sonless one!',
- `utra_âjaa. ‘Sonless and daughterless one!',
- ^âbRâa. ‘Brotherless one!' [said by females],
- `utre tot o. ‘O, sonless Father!',
- `ütri nua â. ‘O, daughterless Mother!'.