Chromatic Languages

The chromatic have two languages; Kinaso and Yuufyaw.

Kinaso

The ancient tongue of the Chromatic and the simpler of their two languages, Kinaso (kee-nah-soe) consists of only 24 glyphs and phonemes, and its words can be made up of anything from one of these characters to a better part of all of them. Kinaso is reserved for only a few purposes. First, it is used to speak about things observed in the sight of the third eye, Na. Second, it is used for names. Lastly, it is used for directional and cautionary signage. It is easy to learn the meaning of the letters, but hard to understand fully for any race that does not experience Na. Below is the list of letters and their approximate meanings. For some of the letters, like Ya and Yo, context is very important to their meaning. For letters like Ri and Si, the meaning is essentially fixed.

All races can learn to read and write in Kinaso, and speak a few words of it well enough to get along with the Primitive and the Advanced Chromatic at the level of a foreign tourist with several days of study. The words relating to the spectrum Na and No are so poorly transliterated into only into color names, masking most of their true meaning from humanoids. See Chromatic Physiology for more detail.

	Meaning(s)		Meaning(s)		Meaning(s)	Name	Meaning(s)
Ya	no, bad, none, closed, south	Yi	you, east	Yo	yes, good, open, north	Yu	me, west
Ra	back, past, regret	Ri	consume, contain, carry	Ro	green, life, vegetation	Ru	ahead, soon, future, appprehension
Sa	red, magic, spell	Si	focus	So	learn, understand, see	Su	do, act, cast
Va	blue, spirit, ghost	Vi	willpower, determination	Vo	honor, honesty	Vu	spiritual position, disposition
Ka	impure, lacking, dark, lowest	Ki	pure, entire, eternity, light, highest	Ko	less, dimmer, low	Ku	more, brighter, high
Na	the third eye, third eye sight	Ni	bifocal sight, eyes	No	tentacle used for focus	Nu	Nakirovasa, a white being

Yuufyaw

Yuufyaw, is far more complex than Kinaso. The phonetics of the language is based on the natural sounds made by the chromatic, which are not unlike that of a raccoon (barks, yammers, meows, clicks, growls etc…). This makes the language very hard to speak and decipher by other races. The name Yuufyaw itself is onomatopoeia for the sound that the chromatic make when referring to their language. The written form of Yuufyaw consists roughly 96 base letters, and over 70% of them indicate pitch and tone of voice, while the rest indicate other sounds such as clicks of the tongue, snarls, snorts, and hisses. Because of the importance of pitch and tone of voice in Yuufyaw, the conversations of chromatic are often mistaken for strange songs and howls by those not native to the island or yet familiar with the chromatic. The spell ‘Speak with Animals’ is not effective when directed at the Chromatic, but very experienced druids are more likely to pick up on the language than others.

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Chromatic Languages

Kinaso

Yuufyaw