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English has 11 basic color terms: black, white, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, orange, pink, purple, and gray; other languages have between 2 and 12. All other colors are considered by most speakers of that language to be variants of these basic color terms.
If a language contains five terms, then it contains terms for both green and yellow. If a language contains six terms, then it contains a term for blue. If a language contains seven terms, then it contains a term for brown. If a language contains eight or more terms, then it contains terms for purple, pink, orange or gray.
In other texts it is the term violet that covers the same full range of colors. [5] The uncertainty about the range of meanings of the color terms violet and purple is even larger when other languages and historical texts are considered.
Hounkpati B Christophe Capo groups Agbome, Kpase, Gun, Maxi and Weme (Ouémé) in the Fon dialect cluster, although other clusterings are suggested. Standard Fon is the primary target of language planning efforts in Benin, although separate efforts exists for Gun, Gen, and other languages of the country. [4]
In the English language, the word "purple" has only one perfect rhyme, curple. Others are obscure perfect rhymes, such as hirple. Robert Burns rhymes purple with curple in his Epistle to Mrs. Scott. Examples of imperfect rhymes or non-word rhymes with purple: In the song Grace Kelly by Mika the word purple is rhymed with "hurtful".
(Blue and green are however distinguished using different words in the eastern parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, due to contact with other languages.) Persian words for blue include آبی ābi (literally the color of water, from āb ' water '), for blue generally; نیلی nili (from nil, 'indigo dye'), for deeper shades of blue such as the ...
Forms from modern Slavic languages or other Church Slavic dialects may occasionally be given in place of Old Church Slavonic. For English , a modern English cognate is given when it exists, along with the corresponding Old English form; otherwise, only an Old English form is given.
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