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Bambona is an invented language (found in Beesley and Karttunen 2003) that has some interesting morphology. The following is a list of Bambona nouns:
| mad | book |
| nat | house |
| posk | girl |
| rip | arm |
| kuzm | cooking pot |
| karj | cell phone |
| zib | enemy |
| lEr | wild pig |
| kOp | nuclear reactor |
| sob | dentist |
| mElk | stone axe |
| rut | integrated circuit |
After the root, nouns can have one of the optional suffixes below:
| ak | pejorative (+Pej) |
| et | diminuative (+Dim) |
| ig | augmentative (+Aug) |
After this suffix, another optional suffix can occur, denoting the speaker's confidence:
| izm | obvious (+Obv) |
| ubap | probable (+Prob) |
| Opot | alleged (+All) |
Next comes a number suffix:
| 0 | no number (+NoNum) |
| il | plural (+Pl) |
| ejak | paucal (+Pauc) |
Next comes the case markings
| 0 | nominative (+Nom) |
| am | accusative (+Acc) |
| ad | dative (+Dat) |
| it | ablative (+Abl) |
| ek | benefactive (+Ben) |
| ozk | genitive (+Gen) |
| Em | inessive (+Ine) |
| Ot | elative (+Ela) |
| ep | comitative (+Com) |
Depending on what case marking there is, an optional suffix can follow:
| following (+Gen) | on | inalienable possession (+Inalien) |
| following (+Ine) and (+Ela) | el | intensifier (+Int) |
| following (+Com) | eg | negative (+Neg) |