Word Order: Dinka uses a subject-verb-object (SVO) structure, similar to English.

Tones: Dinka is a tonal language with three primary tones: high, mid, and low, which play a crucial role in meaning. 

Writing: It is written using the Latin alphabet, with additional IPA characters to represent its unique sounds. 

Sounds: Dinka's words are, with few exceptions, monosyllabic (CV or CVC words) but with an unusual complex morphology, expressed by changes in vowel length, voice quality and tone.  It  has rich vowel harmony, where the quality of vowels within a word must match in certain features. Dinka does not have the letters or sounds for f, h, s, v, x, or z.