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Baure Color Words

Adjectives in Baure can be very complicated, with different endings to match different noun classes. So for example, "black bird" is "aren hamoin" but "black jaguar" is "shin hamoan." There are at least 15 different noun classes in Baure. For this worksheet we have used the general form of these color words (with the ending -kon.)

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hamokon	kotipokon
hamoson	moserokon
yaskon	kotiskon
kopahkon	asol

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