On another post - Ritz and I have daily "coffee chat". While I scoop the beans into the grinder, grind, run the water get the filter, we have this back and forth with Ritzy mrrowing, chirruping, all the while just sitting upright in "pretty kitty pose" as if she is instructing me or overseeing the whole thing.

LIke your kitty, Ritz is not overly vocal, but does have some very specific and identifiable "language moments" that we share. also at predictable times/events. We interact with her vocally a lot, I think she does recognize certain words that we use...she definitely knows her name. "Get the mousey" gets her all excited because she knows it is time for supervised fake-fur mouse play with mommycat.