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Why? Presumably the hunter-gatherers had a language which the children learned, before they started inventing new ideas and corresponding words for them - make that language one which the children can use when they leave.
Someone on the project wanted to test Sapir-Whorf and insisted on randomizing the grammar and vocabulary of the seed language for every run.