Something depicts life in African towns that are not wealthy settings or main characters

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    1 day ago

    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

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      23 hours ago

      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?