quoting ObsequiousNewt, Function, /ˈajwʌ/:

quoting Rhetorica, Kelatetía: Dis, Major Belt 1:

Don't worry about awful language names during the development stage. My first real conlang (with a grammar) was called K_n, and it never got a different name.

Exhibit B.

I'm torn between keeping the codenames for the sake of absurdism, and dumping them for the sake of something that sounds better.

Considering the 'Proto-*' and the '*fish' in that list (at the beginning and the end of the list, respectively) I'll call the protolanguage protoichthys.

btw, I thought the 'proto-star' thing was a play on words for "proto-start".