30000 BC

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

It will be for an alien species which is (what a coincidence) biologically very similar to humans, but is probably different in some way. Maybe their hands are made differently or they can climb trees a bit better, or maybe their mouths are even shaped slightly differently.

But they think in terms of predicates.

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

Affixes
These affixes go on the beginning of the predicate

m- b- n- d- g-

People
ibi - to be the speaker igu - to be the listener/audience

Animals
uge - (animal) to be dangerous, (human) to be renowned auguma - to be a herbivore na

Weather
eida - to be day

ubudumua - to lightning and/or thunder, to shake
 * This also represents a mythical monster. Because of this, it has the meaning of "to arrive (of the mythical monster)"

umi - to be a cloud

ugu - (of rain) to fall

Different Types of Walking
ishima - sneakily stalk

uba - walk brashly

ubudumua - to come nearer (of the mythical monster)

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

Everything Else
ubuha - to do, make, or speak of something

imau - to be at a specific place
 * adage - to be done, to be made, to be spoken of

umau - be approached (by something else which was walking)

Food
ude - to die which is good

ashue - to die which is bad

auguma - to be eaten, to be edible apau - to be (a) bone

Objects/Tools
AenaPa - acts as a mediator between the thing doing an action and the thing being acted upon; doesn't mean "affect" yet emau - stone

Grammar
Word Order
 * The language is very strictly SV for its simple sentences.
 * The more complex (transitive sentences) have the thing acting go first and the thing being acted upon come second.

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
Bauguma bimau bapau. - The animal which could have been eaten is now at a specific place and is now a skeleton. (SUBJ1-eaten.animal SUBJ1-at.place SUBJ1-be.bone)

Culture
Names come from the baby's first babbling; they can have phonemes and phonotactic structures which don't appear in the language, like consonant clusters or syllable-final sounds.