Dume

Foot (Lit. Small They Two)

It means the action of the giving

The literal translation of the bases doesn’t work very well for this word. It is NOT loaned from “Scooby-Doo,” despite how it may sound.

Can also be used to refer to a short, or “small” amount of time. “That event was small” could mean there weren’t a lot of people, or that it didn’t last very long.

Is used as a general pronoun, similar to “this” in English, but not entirely used for inanimate objects. Minebi can also be used for animate nouns, like humans and animals.

Phonology of Dume

If a person is a Bedume, Bedume is said instead of a gender prefix.

Nothing super special about it, it literally just means cloud.

The literal translation doesn’t count for much sometimes. This is a case where the meanings have been heavily abstracted. Not only does it refer to animal horns, but also to tusks, like on Pigs and Elephants.

“Screams. They scream. I hear them. Fire burns them. Fire I made. Bedumebasua gave orders to burn them. They burn. I burn.”

“Sukakabura is a species of wolf from Siberia. They are hairless. They retain water really well. They are carnivores. They are dangerous.”

Proposed writing system for Dume when Bedumebasuas was in power and called for their own writing system, instead of the “archaic” systems of the pre-apocalyptic society and a lack of standardization. (Until that point, most of Africa has been using either Arabic or the Latin Alphabet.) It was enjoyed by Bedumebasuas, but was eventually rejected due to its complexity with writing every single glyph.

It has the a, i, and u vowels from Arabic (along with the added “e” because I felt like 3 was too small for what I wanted to do), and the proto-language had a lot more in common with it in terms of consonants, though definitely simplified. I can post one of the writing systems I made. it isn’t very good and isn’t labeled at all, though, because of the software I made it in. If I were to redo it I’d do it on paper with a pencil.

“Screams. They scream. I hear them. Fire burns them. Fire I made. Bedumebasua gave orders to burn them. They burn. I burn.”

Not only in reference to mountains, but also to hills and volcanoes. An animal that lives in the mountains may be called “Kunari.”

This can refer not only to bark on trees, but spines on cacti as well. Over time it has evolved to mean any protective covering not used on a living thing. A layer of protective “bark” paint on a house, for example.