<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">David - </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The color terms<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>in Belhare (Kiranti) ('black', 'red', 'white', 'green', 'yellow') form their own subclass of adjectives, identified by a special 'color' article that the adjective takes in NPs, and there</FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> is one frequently used color term (for 'blue') that does not belong to this class but instead behaves like non-color adjectives and demonstratives.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The reason for the special behavior of the 'bue'-term seems fairly obvious: it's a recent borrowing from Nepali while all others either go back to old TB roots or are old and now well-integrated borrowings. I'd guess such splits are fairly common.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Balthasar.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Reference:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Gentium" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gentium">Bickel, B. (2003), 'Belhare', in G. Thurgood and R. J. LaPolla (eds.), <I>The Sino-Tibetan languages</I>, London: Routledge, 546 – 70.</FONT></DIV> </BODY></HTML>