16.2088, Qs: Tukano Color Terms; Mystery Language Song

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Subject: 16.2088, Qs: Tukano Color Terms; Mystery Language Song

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1)
Date: 06-Jul-2005
From: Sean Day < sean.day at tridenttech.edu >
Subject: Tukano Color Terms 

2)
Date: 04-Jul-2005
From: Salvatore Attardo < sattardo at neo.rr.com >
Subject: Mystery Language Song 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:14:21
From: Sean Day < sean.day at tridenttech.edu >
Subject: Tukano Color Terms 
 

I am wondering whether, in the various Tukano languages of South 
America, there is an irreducible base color term for the category 
of 'blue'.  In particular, I am interested in the Desana language and 
other languages of the Vaupes region.  From various books and 
articles by Reichel-Dolmatoff, I have seen terms 
for 'black', 'white', 'red', 'green', and 'yellow', but not 'blue', yet 'blue' is 
basic to the color symbolism of Desana and other Tukano 
cosmologies.  

Sean A. Day, Ph.D. 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics



	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:14:24
From: Salvatore Attardo < sattardo at neo.rr.com >
Subject: Mystery Language Song 

	

With apologies about the somewhat frivolous nature of the request, a 
former student of mine has asked me to identify the language in which 
this song, sang by her father in the nineteenseventies, is sung. 
Unfortunately, the recording is only nine seconds long. The father's 
origin is Italian, Piedmontese, to be more precise, but the song doesn't 
seem to be in any Italian dialect I am aware of. 

The sound clip can be downloaded at the following address.

http://homepage.mac.com/babz/PapoSong.mp3.zip

Please direct your replies directly to me and I will forward them to the 
student. Thank you.


Salvatore Attardo, Prof.
English Department
1 University Plaza
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
USA
sattardo at cc.ysu.edu 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics


 



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