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*Proceeds to make changes to my conlang that renders the post invalid the next day*

There are three terms for colours: lin, ron, and kun.

‘Lin’ simply means ‘colour’ and can be combined with other morphemes to create colour terms that may not be covered by ron and kun, such as my use of ‘lifun’ (colour-plant-noun) for green and ‘lifen’ (colour-animal-noun) for that mix of brown and grey often found on wild animals.

Ron means ‘warm colour’, as defined by the speaker. For me, that would be the red-orange-yellow-brown range.

Kun means ‘cool colour’, as defined by the speaker. 

For me, that would be the cyan-blue-violet-grey range-- no green, even though green is taught as a cool colour, because I personally perceive blue and green as more distinct than red and yellow (probably because of my preference of the RGB system); however, if someone does consider green a cool colour, then ‘kun’ would include green for them (and it would fall under ‘ron’ if they considered it a warm colour)-- Cosmogloss is meant to communicate more how the speaker views things-- we already have enough languages based around group consensus!

So if someone says ‘ban kes fen rot’ (1st_person-noun vision-verb animal-noun warm_colour-adjective), they are saying that they see an animal and that it is a colour that they consider to be a warm colour, rather than saying what the colour itself is.

Magenta is especially difficult to pin down. It’s taught as a warm colour, sure, but I don’t agree with that. RGB says magenta is equally red and blue. Kuron? Rokun? Liwen (colour-divine/magic-noun)?

Black could be liwin (colour-cosmos-noun) or nelin (void-colour-noun). White could be lifvenen (colour-(quality-none)-noun) or perhaps linun (colour-moon-noun) or lizun (colour-star-noun).

Ban: 1st person (I)

Dan: 2nd person (thou, you)

Gan: 3rd person animate (he/she/singular they/etc.)

Non: 3rd person inanimate, ‘thing’ (it)

Can: 4th person animate (one, generic you, generic they, ‘someone’)

Con: 4th person inanimate, ‘concept’ (often used as a dummy pronoun, ‘something’)

Van: verb pronoun (used when a noun in a sentence is the noun equivalent of the main verb, ex. ‘I like to speak a language’ -> ‘Ban kas tas van’ instead of ‘Ban kas tas tan’)

Nan: Reflexive pronoun (myself, yourself, oneself, etc.)

These can be turned into possessive pronouns by changing final -n to -k (ex. bak, dak, gak). Turning ‘gan’ into the adjective ‘gat’ can be used to say ‘this’.

While, I used singular pronouns for these examples, these can all be singular or plural, specified (if desired) by adding numbered adjectives:

Bot: single

Gyt: dual

Dit: paucal

Sut: plural

Lyt: all

Note that ‘we’ would not translate to ‘ban sut’ if the members within this ‘we’ are both physically and mentally separate; something such as ‘ban hep dan’ (I and you) or ‘ban hep gan’ (I and them) may be more appropriate in this situation. Using ‘ban sut’ to refer to you and someone else is claiming to speak for them and this can be offensive.

Oh, well, I’m by no means an expert. 

Why do you ask? 

Kun and ron are really the only 'true' colour names. 'Ron' is 'warm colour' (red, orange, yellow) and 'kun' is 'cool colour' (green, cyan, blue). There's also the word 'lin', just meaning 'colour'. If you want more specific colour terms, you have to combine them.

Rosin (warm_colour-left) is red, ronyn (warm_colour-neutral) is orange, and roden (warm_colour-right) is yellow. Kusin, kunyn, and kuden are green, cyan, and blue respectively. Rokun is pink and kuron is purple.

Liwin (colour-space) is black and lilon (colour-light) is white. Linyn is the typical name for grey, but liwilon could be used to imply a dark grey and lilowin could be used to imply a light grey.

Adding -wi- and -lo- to colours makes it lighter or darker, so rowin is brown.

Those are all of the 'official' names, but you could combine the word colour with other stuff, for example, 'lifen' (colour-animal) to refer to that grey-brown colour that a lot of wild animals have.

*Note: All of these colour words I've listed are in noun form. Replace the -n with -t to make it an adjective. 

**Another note, is that these terms cover ranges. Kunyn & kuden, kuden & kuron and kuron & rokun (all blue-spectrum colours!) can especially overlap. 

I’ve decided to make an aUI-inspired conlang with the idea of morpheme=syllable rather than morpheme=phoneme. This should make it easier to avoid the issue of hard-to-pronounce vowel sequences and definitely consonant clusters (...though I can’t promise that the phonemes themselves not be difficult), as well as give way more morphemes to work with. 

It’s also inspired by Toki Pona, so I named it ‘taUI’, and then converted it into the primarily (С)V structure this language is goïng to have, ‘tawi’, and then further changed it to ‘tawin’, since /n/ in this lang signifies the end of a noun. In the language itself, ‘ta’ means ‘language’ and ‘wi’ means ‘space’, so it’s ‘space language’. 

It also has influence from Esperanto and Volapük (and English), though evidently not enough to be part of the name.