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What series are set in African villages or cities?
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I remember Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It (a reference to Purple Rain, but there is no word for purple in Tamasheq, a Tuareg language). The movie is not great but the music is
How would they describe something purple natively if they stumbled upon something we would describe as purple or violet in language and conceptually? Would it be lumped in with blue or is there a way they could discriminate it linguistically in a non-novel way?