3/x have the ability to speak with closed or a full mouth as long their nostrils aren't blocked, in theory they als can keep prey in their fangs while speaking.

The name originally stood for their concept of their 2 moons & their sun. It's a long tragic love story between them. Basically the sun lost her partner moon to another moon partner & now the two moons dance in their home while the sun happy for their moon partner but als sad to do her loss & now being alone visits every day, keeping her distance, singing to the children of her loved moon so they may never feel alone.

Mond di Ra/Luna die Ra was the first translation that came out of the attempts do to Terran standard being mostly constructed of shorter words and concepts that broadly mean the same.

So her name could be interpreted as the Sun sings to the moon children.

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2/x will not understand what you mean calling someone a Romeo. Now multiply this idea by things that are clear to us like ground, air, human are all concepts we basically understand thanks to our internalized knowledge through our human society. We learn from childhood on what the ground is, what earth can mean. For the Somwhar it wasn't so clear. In their first translations it simply referred to dirt.
A lot of work had to be done and a lot of mistakes where made. Still today only the main Somwhar dialect can be easily translated into Union Standard despite them being a core member world for more than 50 years.

The original name is not speakable do to our set-up of vocal cords and lip usage, in case of the Somwhar their "lips" to articulate sit in their throat, around the area where Terrans/Humans have their larynx, thus Somwhar

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