Proto-Satoyanic

Vowels
=Morphology= Fairly agglutinative. Nouns are often derived from verb roots.

Aspect
Proto-Satoya features five aspect distinctions: =Numerals=
 * *-te
 * Perfective
 * *-me
 * Imperfective
 * *-eñe
 * Gnomic
 * *-ere
 * Iterative
 * *-eŋʷa
 * Inchoative

=Syntax= Head initial, SOV for transitive and SV for intransitive.

Relative clauses are formed with the following affix *-i¢e-.