The fact of the matter is, Abe DOES save those Mudokons as he's leaving in the first segment of the game, if he doesn't they'd be dead canonically. So Manco is right, it doesn't make sense that Abe knows to chant at the beginning of the game. However, Abe doesn't know he can possess Sligs at this point, that's still learnt in Monsaic lines canonically. The saving the 28 is just a plot hole, really.
Of course we know from behind the scenes details the reason you can chant from the get go is because they thought it was too late to bring the whole saving Mudokons gameplay mechanic in as late as the return to Rupture Farms, which they felt would be too late in the game to introduce chanting AND gamespeak.
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