Re: Basic Color Terms: Classical Yiklamu

Hallo!

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:47:02 -0400,
Javier BF <uaxuctum@...> wrote:

> >FWIW:
> >
> >    http://www36.pair.com/waldzell/mpl/yiklamu/colors.html
>
> Over half a hundred (!) _basic_ colour terms?
> That is definitely odd.
It is, but as far as I understand it, Classical Yiklamu is an engelang
that uses no derivations, but assigns a unique root to each of the
70,000 entries of the WordNet thesaurus, using unrelated roots for,
e.g., `to bake' and `baker'.

Greetings,

Jörg.

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