Colour adjectives Clause Samples

Colour adjectives. The Thangmi language has adjectives to express three colours: black, white and red. While older speakers insist that there were once terms for a greater range of colours on the spectrum, there is no persuasive evidence of this. According to ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇’▇ proposed evolution of colour terminology, as presented in their Basic Colour Terms, Thangmi would be an example of typical stage II language, having indigenous lexical items for ‘black’, ‘white’ and ‘red’ only. All other colour terms are borrowed from Nepali. Alongside the terms for these three primary colours, Thangmi has adjectives meaning ‘dark’ and ‘light’, but these cannot be used to modify the intensity of a colour. Thangmi colour terms and the associated adjectives expressing lightness and darkness from the Dolakhâ dialect are presented in Table 51 below. ḍif-ḍif kiji red black ▇▇▇▇▇ light (as in brightness) dark Despite the limited range of lexical items to express colour that exist in Thangmi, the colour terms that do exist have a range of uses which warrant discussing in some detail. Alongside the standard meaning of ubo ‘white’, as illustrated by example 317, ubo ‘white’ can precede mi ‘person’ to render ubo mi (white person) ‘foreigner, white-skinned person’, as in examples 318 to 321. 317 găi-go mif ubo hok-Ø-du, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ bu-si-▇▇-▇▇-le kiji I-GEN cloth white be-sAS-NPT but much cover-REF-IPP-1s-PCL black be-sAS-3S/PT My clothes are white, but because I have worn them for so long, they have become black. 318 ubo mi-ko camăica-pali-ye oste-ko huca-kăi cyocyo ma-pi white person-GEN woman-p-ERG self-GEN child-PM breast NEG-give say-pAS-NPT They say that white women don’t give their children the breast. 319 ubo mi-ko pepelek aye hok-Ø-du. white person-GEN money much be-sAS-NPT White people have a lot of money. 320 to isyaf ubo mi-pali demca ra-to-le that period white person-p load bring-TPP-PCL
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