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>any cat owner will tell you that their kitty develops their own vocabulary with different expressions for different things.
That's because cats are really good at manipulating people. Among feral cat colonies though they really don't do a lot of vocal communication outside of threat displays, or the awful yowling of cats in heat.
Dolphins and whales do though, some have more complex songs than others, some that get longer over the year and then change during the season. They also have names they identify with and greet each other.
Obviously it's not going to be an offshoot of indo-european with anything vaguely familiar to us because of lack of a common reference between a person and a dolphin. I mean we both get hungry and want to fuck, but the basic experiences are so different that you can hardly compare. Just by virtue of having grasping hands and opposable thumbs we can manipulate out surroundings in a way you cant with flippers and a nose hole, meanwhile they "see" in sound and their language could be more about the "shapes" their sounds make than the sound (like "speaking" braille).
If you're really curious, look into a guy named John C. Lilly. He's an interesting character, to say the least.
https://youtu.be/x3IUTV5K8Uc