30000 BC

This proto-lang will be made in the equivalent of 30,000 BCE. This constitutes the Upper Paleolithic.

What words?

Orthography
/e/ - somewhere near a mid-front vowel, but can degrade in fast speech to sound like /i/ or /a/

/i/ - high front vowel, similar to [j] in intensity, never degrades

/a/ - most variable sound; is a back low vowel, but can shift to any low vowel and many mid vowels

/u/ - mostly distinguished from /a/ by roundedness; always a back vowel

Animals
me - I

mide - you and I

de - you

dide - you lot

bi - this/that

gueu - carnivore

uiai = dangerous herbivorous even-toed ungulate

uihei = weakened uioi

Weather
eida - day

gubudumua - lightning/thunder/boogeyman

mui - cloud

ugu - rain

Different Types of Walking
bua - walk brashly

gueubua - to walk (like) an animal, with grace

shihi - sneakily stalk

Everything Else
hubua - do, make, say

pimau - to be at a specific place

umau - come to the place in a way which isn't walking

Food
ugue - death which is good

shaue - death which is bad

pau - bone

Objects/Tools
bena - the previous action mau - stone

Grammar
Word Order
 * The language is very strictly SOV.
 * It has no case system, but this will evolve relatively quickly.

Reduplication
 * Reduplication of the first syllable of a verb implies an iterative nature.
 * Reduplication of the first two syllables of a verb implies a habitual/gnomic nature.

Sentences
uiei gueugueubua. - (An) even-toed ungulate habitually (without a specific temporal pattern) walks (here).

uiei eida gueugueubua. - (An) even-toed ungulate walks (here) daily.

Meu gbubaidmab huhubua. - Meu says "gbubaidmab".

Culture
Names come from the baby's first babbling; they can have phonotactic structures which don't appear in the language, like consonant clusters.