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Color vocabulary in female-dominated Brightmoonian society is very rich, as female humans tend to make finer color distinctions than males, which could be due in part to their greater genetic likelihood of carrying some form of tetrachromacy, either as fully functional tetrachromats (as in the documented cases of Concetta Antico and G. Zorpette's reported Madame Tetrachromat, among others) or probably much more commonly as "anomalous tetrachromats" (who would perceive a richer color experience than trichromats, but without enjoying the full tetrachromatic experience, analogously to how anomalous trichromats have a richer color experience than pure dichromats but are considered "colorblind" by non-anomalous trichromats).
Also, in addition to being a female-dominated society with a penchant for making finicky chromatic distinctions, there is also a sizeable population of functional human tetrachromats among the Brightmoonian population, resulting both from the natural genetic mutations also present among Earth humans, and from hybridization experiments with genes for additional photopigments taken from the ADN of non-human species on the Etherian planet.
This all means the range of basic color terms (BCTs) in Brightmoonese could be described as having reached a significantly later stage than the stage VII (8 to 11 BCTs) described by Berlin & Kay for English and other Western European languages. Additionally, there is a fledgling color terminology emerging to describe the tetrachromatic visual experience (whereas the only such kind of terminology attested so far in Earth human languages seems to be the term fency used to refer to what appears to be a novel unique hue in the green-to-blue area as experienced by a Hungarian female tetrachromat reported by Á. Holba & B. Lukács.
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Female-dominated Brightmoonian society is traditionally matriarchal, so kinship terms and personal names primarily reflect a matrilineal genealogy.
| Item # | English gloss | Brightmoonese | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I (1.sg.pronoun) | ﺯ | |ɴᶞᴇ| | /ne/ | ne |
| 2 | you (singular), thou | ﻅ | |ʔᶞᴇ| | /te/ | te |
| 3 | we (inclusive) | ﺃ | |ɦᶞᴇ| | /ðe/ | de |
| 4 | this | ﺰ | |ɴᶞᴀ| | /nɛ/ | na |
| 5 | that | ﻆ | |ʔᶞᴀ| | /tɛ/ | ta |
| 6 | who? | ﻔ | |ʔˠᴇ| | /kɤ/ | ke |
| 7 | what? | ﻕ | |ʔˠᴀ| | /kʌ/ | ka |
| 8 | not | ﺶ | |ɴᵝᴀ| | /mɞ/ | ma |
| 9 | all (of a number) | ||||
| 10 | many | ||||
| 11 | one | ﻛ | |hᶞᴇ| | /θe/ | ze |
| 12 | two | ﻈﺀ | |ʔᶞᵝᴇ|˥| | /tᵖǿ/ | tpé |
| 13 | big | ||||
| 14 | long (not wide) | ||||
| 15 | small | ||||
| 16 | woman | ||||
| 17 | man (adult male human) | ||||
| 18 | person (individual human) | ||||
| 19 | fish (noun) | ﻘﺁﺭ | |ʔˠᵝᴀ|˩|ᴙ| | /kᵖɔ̀ʳ/ | kpàr |
| 20 | bird | ||||
| 21 | dog | ||||
| 22 | louse | ||||
| 23 | tree (not log) | ﺛﺀﺗ | |ᴙᶞᵝɪ|˥|ɦ| | /rᴮýy/ | rbíh |
| 24 | seed (noun) | ||||
| 25 | leaf (botanics) | ||||
| 26 | root (botanics) | ||||
| 27 | bark (of tree) | ||||
| 28 | (person’s) skin | ||||
| 29 | flesh (meat) | ||||
| 30 | blood | ||||
| 31 | bone | ||||
| 32 | grease (1952: fat, organic substance) | ||||
| 33 | egg | ||||
| 34 | horn (of bull etc.) | ||||
| 35 | tail | ||||
| 36 | feather (large, not down) | ||||
| 37 | hair (on head of humans) | ||||
| 38 | head (anatomic) | ﻘﺀﻄ | |ʔˠᵝᴀ|˥|ʔᶞɪ| | /kᵖɔ́ti/ | kpáti |
| 39 | ear | ||||
| 40 | eye | ﺉﺁﻋ | |ɦᵝᴇ|˩|ʔᵝᴇ| | /βɵ̀pɵ/ | vèpe |
| 41 | nose | ||||
| 42 | mouth | ||||
| 43 | tooth (front, rather than molar) | ﻆﺀﺮ | |ʔᶞᴀ|˥|ɴᶞɪ| | /tɛ́ni/ | táni |
| 44 | tongue (anatomical) | ﻉﺀﺿ | |ʔᶞᵝᴀ|˥|ɴˠᴀ| | /tᵖœ́ŋʌ/ | tpáqa |
| 45 | claw | ||||
| 46 | foot (not leg) | ||||
| 47 | knee | ||||
| 48 | hand | ||||
| 49 | belly (lower part of body, abdomen) | ||||
| 50 | neck (not nape) | ||||
| 51 | breasts (female) | ﻈﺁﺶﺀ | |ʔᶞᵝᴇ|˩|ɴᵝᴀ|˥| | /tᵖø̀mɞ́/ | tpèmá |
| 52 | heart | ||||
| 53 | liver | ||||
| 54 | drink (verb) | ||||
| 55 | eat (verb) | ﺃﻙﺃ | |ɦᶞᴇ|ʔ|ɦᶞᴇ| | /ðedːe/ | detde |
| 56 | bite (verb) | ||||
| 57 | see (verb) | ||||
| 58 | hear (verb) | ||||
| 59 | know (facts) | ||||
| 60 | sleep (verb) | ||||
| 61 | die (verb) | ﺵﺭﺃ | |ɴᵝᴇ|ᴙ|ɦᶞᴇ| | /mɵrðe/ | merde |
| 62 | kill (verb) | ﻃﺞﺃ | |ɴ|ᴙᵝɪ|ɦᶞᴇ| | /mʙʉðe/ | nbide |
| 63 | swim (verb) | ||||
| 64 | fly (verb) | ||||
| 65 | walk (verb) | ||||
| 66 | come (verb) | ||||
| 67 | lie (on side, recline) | ||||
| 68 | sit (verb) | ||||
| 69 | stand (verb) | ||||
| 70 | give (verb) | ﻈﺀﺃ | |ʔᶞᵝᴇ|˥|ɦᶞᴇ| | /tᵖǿðe/ | tpóde |
| 71 | say (verb) | ﻗﺀﺃ | |ʔˠᵝᴇ|˥|ɦᶞᴇ| | /kᵖódːe/ | kpétde |
| 72 | sun | ||||
| 73 | moon | ﺶﺀﻡ | |ɴᵝᴀ|˥|hᵝᴇ| | /mɞ́ɸɵ/ | máfe |
| 74 | star | ||||
| 75 | water (noun) | ||||
| 76 | rain (noun, 1952 verb) | ||||
| 77 | stone | ||||
| 78 | sand | ||||
| 79 | earth (soil) | ﻎﺁﺵ | |ʔˠᶞᵝᴇ|˩|ɴᵝᴇ| | /kᵗᵖɵ̀mɵ/ | ktpème |
| 80 | cloud (not fog) | ||||
| 81 | smoke (noun, of fire) | ||||
| 82 | fire | ﻌﺁﺭ | |ʔᵝᴀ|˩|ᴙ| | /pɞ̀ʳ/ | pàr |
| 83 | ash(es) | ||||
| 84 | burn (verb intr.!) | ||||
| 85 | path (1952 road, trail; not street) | ||||
| 86 | mountain (not hill) | ||||
| 87 | red (color) | ||||
| 88 | green (color) | ||||
| 89 | yellow (color) | ||||
| 90 | white (color) | ﻍﻄ | |ʔˠᶞᵝɪ|ʔᶞɪ| | /kᵗᵖʉti/ | ktpiti |
| 91 | black (color) | ||||
| 92 | night | ﺵﺀﻅ | |ɴᵝᴇ|˥|ʔᶞᴇ| | /mɵ́te/ | méte |
| 93 | hot (adjective; 1952 warm, of weather) | ||||
| 94 | cold (of weather) | ||||
| 95 | full | ﺟﻃ | |ᴙᵝᴇ|ɴ| | /ʙɵⁿ/ | ben |
| 96 | new | ﺵﺊ | |ɴᵝᴇ|ɦᵝᴀ| | /mɵβɞ/ | meva |
| 97 | good | ||||
| 98 | round | ﺛﺗﺰ | |ᴙᶞᵝɪ|ɦ|ɴᶞᴀ| | /rᴮyinɛ/ | rbihna |
| 99 | dry (substance) | ||||
| 100 | name | ||||