[lojban] Re: minimum concepts

["Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com>]

>> >> 35 seems a bit stingy. At least 3 of those are needed for a triple of
>> >> primary colors,
>> >
>> > maybe not if you say something like "grass-color" (green), "sky-color"
>> > (blue), "snow-color" (white), "blood-color" (red), etc.  i think
"color"
>> > would be a necessary concept, but not the individual colors themselves.
>> >
>> > stevo

>aUI, The Language of Space, uses 31 "elements of meaning", but apparently
>"color" is not one of them. Probably it would be formed as some compound
>with "light".

To my knowledge, aUI has not yet been shown to be a complete language
capable of expressing everything its speakers need to express. Nahuatl
trivially is, as it has had many monolingual speakers over the years. If it
really *is* oligosynthetic (I've never seen any serious analysis of the
issue by linguists - only insurance investigators), that is much more
interesting than aUI.