Fvalian

Physical
Animal ears, claws, and tails are the most telling physical features of a fvalian. Ancient genetic modification has granted fvalian populations a variety of animal features fashioned to mimic those from mammalian species. Attached to the side of head similar to normal human locations, Fvalian ears can mimic a variety of animal species with variations in between. All can pivot, turn, and rotate to some degree, often allowing a fvalian to focus their enhanced hearing upon a target. Claws emerge from human nail bed locations on the end of fingers and toes, and curl to grow into points. These claws can vary in thickness, sharpness, and length. Tails share a similar expansion range of variety, but are usually strong enough to support the fvalian's weight without risk, and if long enough can be strong and dexterous enough to wrap around objects.

Secondary fvalian traits often expression themselves in sharper, more pronounced canines (and other teeth), denser body hair, different eye iris, darker skin around the nose, and different coloration patterns on the skin and in the hair.

Fvalians share common height and weight distributions with typical human norms. Hair and skin color is extremely diverse and is easily affect by other biomods inherited. It is theorized that primary and secondary fvalian traits were engineered with coloration and pattern biomods in mind.

Language
Fvalian languages have the same ancestors, but different dialects and sub-languages can greatly deviate in vocabulary, pronunciation, writing, and syntax. There are many different nationalities and divisions in fvalian culture that is expressed through their languages. Despite these differences, there's a few shared traits. Most fvalian languages have character sets to support incorporation of foreign words using phoneme representing characters. Fvalian makes use of language construct called "framing". Framing allows indication that a particular concept incorporates concepts from the meanings of other words. A unique verbal cue prompts the opening and closing of the concept being described. Repetition of words has a multiplicative effect and word order implies additional meaning and context.

For example using "{" and "}" to indicate the framing.

A love-hate relationship:  { relationship love hate }

A love relationship you HATE: { love relationship hate hate }

A real mess of a relationship: { love hate love hate relationship }

Commonly used combinations start to unofficial standardize themselves within a particular community and often spread out to be adopted by other groups.

Fvalian words typically are short and tend towards single syllables, with inflection and context modifying their meaning more often that dedicated adverbs or adjectives.

Society
Fvalian culture derives itself from a history of multiple strong influences that were individually unique by themselves. There is no one region in the world that can claim being the origination point for fvalians. But from these different locations, early fvalian groups found each other around the world, mixed, and spread out to form their own communities. Each major group has their own differences, but all share a common core.

Fvalians don't prescribe to a particular form of marriage. Often couples will just live with each other, with care taken to mind personal and shared assets. Children are given last names depending on the involvement of particular parent or other agreement. Hyphenated names are seen in equal partnerships and the order is interchangeable due to either being seen as equal.

Many groups of fvalians engage in polytheistic worship of different gods, spirits, or forces, and with pray and give tribute at shrines. While there is no one primary god, most have a few favorites and a few they have grievances with.

There's a few stereotypes that float around due to the bestial appearance of fvalians, which are unfounded... But often played up in entertainment media. The terms "catgirl", "wolfman", and "beast" are considered fairly offensive.