A Challenge

If you could boil language down to its very essence; those words upon which the definition of all other words could be based. What would those words be? I know that is a rather confounding question, spend a few moments though and think about it. I'd like to hear your suggestions. I'm sure you're thinking I've suddenly gone off the deep end as this is not my normal sort of post. It has to do with an idea I had for a program. I'm not concerned about proper gramar either. For example "I" and "me" would be considered one and the same word for this exercise, but "you" and "you" (as in "you all") would not.