A language of strange noises, generally associated with extreme stress, tiredness, and for those moments when all other words have failed. Indeed, for those occasions when words really aren't working. Even for the most verbally articulate in the English Language amongst us, of which the two of us communicating in Ug could normally be considered.

In this afternoons conversation, slumped around a kitchen table, we managed to convey an awful lot with very little other than "Ug", "mmmm" (at various pitches) and "More coffee?"

Mostly that we were very tired, but we had done a most excellent afternoons work, and that really was the end of a most interesting, small, but deeply significant chapter in our lives.