praome

Praome is a term used in speculative linguistics and world-building to denote a hypothetical proto-language or ancestral form of speech. It is not recognized as a real historical language by mainstream linguistics, and there is no standardized grammar, phonology, or lexicon associated with it in credible scholarly sources. The name often appears as a placeholder in discussions of language reconstructions, sound change, and language-family development, where authors imagine an earlier form that could have given rise to later languages. In fictional contexts, Praome may function as the root tongue of a people or as an example used to illustrate how phonetic shifts and typological changes might propagate through a language tree.

Because Praome has no single authoritative description, its features are highly variable and depend on the author or project. Some users treat it as a purely abstract construct, focusing on conceptual relationships rather than concrete data. Others provide brief, world-building oriented grammars or glossaries to support storytelling or game design, but such materials are not intended to be historically verifiable. In scholarly practice, reconstructions typically rely on data from attested languages; Praome is used mainly as a didactic or fictional device.

See also: Proto-language; language reconstruction; conlang; world-building.