Speech Grammar

First Words

First words combine sounds in a meaningful way. Just as the 3 basic vowels go on to mean very complex things (directions, movement, feelings, positions, goals, purposes, etc.), so to the various consonants and other vowels get associated with various complex meanings. These complex meanings then get chained together into words.

Somewhere, someone would have maybe come up with a set of constraints on how these sounds could be combined. One such possible simple rule would be, all sound sequences must start and end with a consonant. This might have come after people made words be any sequence of sounds, because any sequence of sounds (which represent rich experiences not even distinguished between actions and objects) would have quickly run into the problem of how to distinguish actions and objects. It is more likely that the experience was given a word, and later we had to mark the experiences as actions and objects. So in this sliver of experience, perhaps they came up with this constraint, that words started and ended with a consonant, so that you could convert them into actions and objects with a vowel suffix.

So this person would have been born where there were already words, but the words didn't have a consistent pattern to them. So they changed the words to have a consistent pattern, which simplified cognitive load.

rak r a k

The word for "rock" could symbolize the strength/effort "r" required to lift that rock, the "a" meaning to release the effort and get back to normal, and the "k", the sound of the rock chipping, or hitting other rocks.

mam m a m

The sound m would have been for a good thing, as opposed to "n" for a bad thing. The sound sequence mam for "source" (like your mom), would have been a "good relaxing good" or "good safe good".

But then words would be created out of the feeling of the moment, whatever felt right, and you would end up with words for which the original meaning was not obvious, or was never obvious. They would get shared, and normalized, as long as they fit the pattern/rule of starting/ending with a consonant. Then we can easily tell what is a "word" and what is not a "word".

The words kiq (action type) and kaq (object type) represent the creation, where q is neither good nor bad, it just is, as peace. "The creation that moves forward, and is", and "the creation that stands still, and is", k-i-q, and k-a-q.

The sound f might be associated with the wind or cold.

The sound x with a splashing of a stream or water.

The sound s with a flowing stream.

That is why the "universe" is "six", the stream that moves forward with turbulence.

A "name" is nem, a "bad featuring good". It is a bad thing, but it has some good to it. Not all words can be defined like this, but some were defined like this.

Distinguishing Actions and Objects

At first the action and object marker come separated from the main word.

I need food
suq a sod i fud a

Then it becomes suffixed.

suqa sodi fudi

You notice that words can't end in w, y, or h, because they don't make a distinct enough sound. Also don't start with q, because that is a hard sound to start with.

Counting

Counting are among the first words.

1. pointer finger
2. middle finger
3. ring finger
4. pinky finger
5. thumb

Thumb, being -u, points back to self, going deep inside. Pointer, being -i, points out into the world.

The closed fist is zero, so zero wasn't that hard of a concept.

We could lay down leaves for every 10. And sticks for every 100. And rocks for every 1000. Otherwise with our fingers we can show 0-10.

We can learn to say "more" or "less" than 1000, or "much more" or "much less" than 1000, rather than having to be exact.

However, much is basically a modifier without a clear noun or verb base. More and less are relationship invoking words, so they define properties like adjectives.

Much could represent "much stuff", where you stretch your arms out, hold a pile of branches. "Few" you would hold just a handful of branches.

To express "more stuff" and "less" stuff, that is in relation to something else. So have to talk about the relationship, with "than". "More stuff than this". "Less stuff than this".

Than comes from compare (Can), but as a preposition Canu.

Conjunctions

Conjunction words are among the first words too, to make bigger sentences.

• and: comes from "bind"
• or: comes from "choice"
• not: comes from "void"
• but: comes from "exception"

Sentences