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A Note on the Hare Indian Color Terms Based on Brent Berlin and Paul Kay: Basic Color Terms. Their Universality and Evolution

Author: Harald Beyer Broch
Publication Year: 1974

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
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