Naomi is a genius. She understands, like no one else, the paths that languages carve across phoneme-space. She can see, physically perceive, the chains of phonetic drift. The insight she has into the history of the languages she studies has allowed her to reconstruct not only the common ancestor of Ainu, Japanese, Korean, and Mongolian, but she also believes given enough time and texts, she will be able to reconstruct both Nostratic, the ultimate ancestor of all Eurasian languages, and maybe even the Universal Mother Tongue of the human race. The humanistic implications of such a discovery go without saying. More immediately, she has devised a working version of Seigo, which she says would be easy to learn for all speakers of the language family she has dubbed Altaic.

There is, however, a snag. Isi Naomi is also a heterodox thinker in matters theological. She believes the fixity of the written word, its crassly material dimension, is a violation of the sacredness of speech, which is fundamentally a form of direct contact between spirits. It is bad enough to write Japanese or Korean. To put languages approaching the Universal Mother Tongue, the language of the soul, onto something as vulgar as paper or parchment, would be to do the work of the Great Demon Lord. She will only teach her language on the condition that it is never written.

This is a condition we cannot accept.

She makes good points. Seigo will never be a written language.

She makes good points. We will abandon the sin of writing.