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Nimrina color chart

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Friday, August 18, 2006, 4:40
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/png/nimrina-colors.png

A few sample words of Nimrina. It's too early to establish a "feel" for
the sounds of the language, so some of these may change over time. It's
based on the same decimal color system as Lindiga, with minor
variations. The 10 basic colors are:

hádry [ha:d`z`1] red
myzry [m1z`:1]   orange
ríva  [z`i:va]   yellow
sívyn [s_ji:v`n] yellow-green
tavla [tavla]    green
perta [pEs`t`a]  turquoise
híli  [Ci:l_ji]  blue
kaspi [kasp_ji]  indigo
lúma  [lu:ma]    purple
tauma [tauma]    magenta

Additionally, "tsa-" is a prefix for pale colors, and "zyn-" for dark
colors; these produce initial consonant mutations.

tsavádry  pale red
tsadavla  pale green    zyndavla  dark green
tsavíli   pale blue     zymvíli   dark blue

Specific words for other colors are also illustrated:

vúri   [vu:z`i]   dark brown
lurá   [luz`a:]   medium brown
trúnu  [t`s`u:nu] tan
nylny  [n1ln1]    maroon
zatta  [zat:a]    bright red
mevzi  [mEvz_ji]  pink
hríva  [s`i:va]   lavender
gobyn  [gOb1n]    olive-green
dmázi  [Dma:z_ji] blue-green
nidlu  [n_jidlu]  violet
rarmu  [z`az`mu]  mauve