A Note on the Hare Indian Color Terms Based on Brent Berlin and Paul Kay: Basic Color Terms. Their Universality and Evolution
Working in Fort Good Hope in the 1972-1973, Harald Broch interviewed Addy Tobac, Lucy Jackson, Georgina Tobac, and Pasanne Manuel. These informants provided him with a list of colour terms:
white, dεkɂal̨ε
black, dεsεn
red, dεdεlε
yellow, dεfↄ
green, ætʒ
blue, dεtłɂε
pınk, tsε
brown, dεsεn dεfↄ
[*note: the author’s spellings have simply been transcribed as written here]
Broch finds from his informants that red may be related to blood, and that pink, tsǝ, is also a word for sprucegum (which turns dark pink when chewed). Green also means grass, leaves, cabbage, and flowers. Blue, white, and black have no other meanings.
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Broch, Harald. “A Note on the Hare Indian Color Terms Based on Brent Berlin and Paul Kay: Basic Color Terms, Their University and Evolution.” Anthropological Linguistics 16, no. 5 (1974): 192-196.
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- Publication Type: Journal Article
- In Publication: Anthropological Linguistics
- Keywords: Ethnography|Language