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Despite being matriarchal, their formal language is surprisingly non-gendered unless it needs to be for specific identifiers. (Though there are flocks that do have a more gendered layout for personal flock dialects.) A lot of their means of referencing things are based on intensity, or it is said directly if it has nothing to do with a feeling. And in a good number of languages across the planet, this sticks as a consistency even as grammar and vocabulary differ. Things they say also tend to have an interesting variety of meanings depending on the word or phrase, and the tone used to say that word or phrase. Something can go from essentially just meaning "family" to meaning of "the people who help create your soul with you" without adding more words to it because the tone and context do that for them. And while both mean similar things, the intensity changes those meanings. Both are important, and one is not "more meaningful" than another. It's just different intensity and context. This is so for a lot of their phrases and words. Having a simple meaning, but a more complex meaning in other emotional spaces.