Re: Blue grass and skies

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Not quite.  It's:
>
> I: White, black (or, rather, light and dark)
> II: White, black, red
> III: White, black, red, and yellow OR green
> IV: White, black, red, yellow, green
> V: White, black, red, yellow, green, blue
> VI: White, black, red, yellow, green, blue, brown
> VII: White, black, red, yellow, green, blue, brown, and one or more of
> the following: pink, grey, purple, orange
Tokana is a type VII language, I guess:

  has      white
  kote     black
  sane     red
  laite    yellow
  kulhe    green
  lune     blue
  lohne    brown

...and then two varieties of grey, "hiem" and "hemak".  "Hiem" is a cool,
light grey, while "hemak" is a warm, dark grey.  Traditionally, "hiem" is
characterized as a Sky colour (the colour of smoke, clouds, ice, etc.),
while "hemak" is an Earth colour (the colour of rocks, wet sand, and dark
water).

Finally, there's "aihne" = "golden, amber" and "aile" = "silver, shiny", but
I don't count these as basic colour terms, since they were probably borrowed
from another language.

Matt.