Colors
Colors are described by the following class schema:
skari1: physical objects
skari2: colors
skari3: photoreceptors
skari4: physical environments
xinmo2: skari2
The class of skari2 is known as skaselbri.
A color is a ratio of red, green, and blue. Exact ratios are yet to be decided, but there is a good survey of colors for future folks to incorporate. Extensionally, colors are the sets of all physical objects which can appear to have that color; using {blabi} as an example:
da blabi <=> su'o de su'o di zo'u: da skari pa ka ce'u blabi kei de di
Note that as a result, {skari} implies {ckaji}, and vice versa when {ckaji2} is a color:
da skari de di da4 => da ckaji de
The baseline contains the following colors:
| Lojban | International English |
|---|---|
| blabi | white |
| blanu | blue |
| bunre | brown, tan |
| cicna | cyan, turquoise, green-blue |
| crino | green, verdant |
| grusi | grey |
| labyxu'e | rose |
| narju | orange |
| nukni | magenta, fuchsia, purple-red |
| pelxu | yellow, gold |
| xekri | black |
| xunblabi | pink |
| xunre | red, crimson, ruddy |
| zirpu | purple, violet |
The physical environments include nothing at all (blackbody radiation), electric fields (fluorescence), temperature (incandescence), etc.
Related words
- kandi
- carmi
- xinmo