Proto-Wuh'um language

Proto-Wuh'um (PWm) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Wuh'um languages, a language family found throughout the Eternal Deltas region of Northern Fountainhead. Possibly had contact with Macro-Xiric peoples whether loan words can be observed taking place, and also Umtshe loan words.

Syllable profile:

 * PRVRʔ
 * PVR
 * PRVʔ
 * PRVR
 * PVʔ
 * VRʔ
 * Vʔ

Case and Verb conjugation:

 * -kol ERG (Possibly derived from the noun *kol ‘ear’)
 * -pow ACC
 * -ʔya DAT (Possibly derived from the noun *oʔya ‘armpit’)
 * -ele  ABL (Possibly derived from *eleh ‘edge, end’ )
 * -uŋ PASS
 * -dwoŋ CAUS
 * xus- 1sg
 * asoʔ- 2sg
 * -so PST
 * -ħum genitive

Verbs
All verbs roots are in the non-past conjugation, to refer to future or past tense verbs take the past suffix in account. E.g.

“Asoʔkeʔso gēʔpow”

asoʔ-keʔ -so             gēʔ -pow

2SG-eat -PST          fish -ACC

“You ate a fish”

= Vocabulary = Proto-Wuhum languages follow a base-8 number system, natives are recorded to count using the spaces between their fingers rather than the fingers themselves.