Proto-Satoyanic

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

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

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

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