I've just made the phonological base for a language. It's pretty simple. It's also pretty bare, in both grammar and vocabulary. I'll fix a little of that.

But the question here is one I've asked before: is it possible to bootstrap a culture?

Part of the pickle is reason for cultures. They're shorthand for our experiences. Cultures are languages. And just like a language, they need to have a benefit to their use in order to exist; a useful social component. They change, too, just like other languages, until they're no longer recognizable.

This is why cultures disappear: they fail to provide their members with a beneficial shorthand. Typically this happens when the culture in question is surrounded and slowly absorbed by another culture; various Native American tribes in the United States, or Roma in Europe. It's a messy process.

Conversely, could a priori cultures step in to fill the gaps we see opening in front of us?

So...anyone wanna do some experimentation?