| 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