Don't forget Semitic languages, where Arabic has Verb Class IX, which is
entirely (or almost entirely) made up of attribute verbs describing colors
and defects.
> > > It's just a sort of "irregularity". And I think it looks better, and,
> > > I didn't know any language that did have colors as nouns.
> >
> > French! In fact, in French any adjective can be used as a noun,
including
> > colors.
>
> I think he meant "that has colours as *verbs*". As I understood it, his
> language was something like "The tree greens" for "The tree is green".
>
> (I think I read somewhere that some speakers of Esperanto do something
> like that -- add a verb ending to colour names and use it as a verb.)
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