Talk:Dani people

message: ? In Indonesian? In their own language? --Menchi 03:33, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
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message: I have read about research into the relationship between language and perception, specifically investigating a people who had no words for colour in my reading. Eleanor Rosch did indeed study the Dani tribe, and apparently discovered that while they had no words for different colours, they were quite capable of distinguishing between them. Here's a link to the Colombia Encyclopedia article about her and her research: [Rosch] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yvain (talk • contribs) 
:Please don't feel you can only make suggestions or corrections on the talk page. Instead please edit the article directly. This comment would be a valuable addition, and the reference can be added to the list of references or external links. —Pengo 23:49, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If I remember correctly 'brown' is one of the later color terms that comes latest to a language, regardless of what color dirt it's spoken on. Berlin and Kay did a study on basic color terms in languages awhile back, and found that languages have a rather strict (but not totally inflexible) hierarchy of color terminology: if the language has two basic color words, their canonical values will be black and white; if it has three, it has those two and red; if four, then those three and either green or yellow; if five, those four and the other of green or yellow; if six, those five and blue; if seven, those six and brown; if eight or more, those seven and some combination of purple, pink, orange, and grey. Germanic is interesting in that it has seemed to have gotten many of these color names early and lent them out (both 'brown' and 'blue' got sent into Romance languages). When B&K analyzed Chinese they only found six, presumably 白色 (white), 黑色 (black), 红色 (red), 绿色 (green), 黄色 (yellow), and 蓝色 (blue) [I don't have the book atm to see]. 咖啡色 (brown, coffee-colored) appears to have become more common than the native (?) term 褐色 (brown), suggesting a lack of 'basic'-ness to 褐色 keeping it from being common. Having 紫色 (purple) appears to be an anomaly in the hierarchy, which may also be duplicated in Japanese. —Muke Tever 19:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colour vision and language 

message: From the beginning, we were calling ourselves Lani, not Dani. 
Lani means "You Go!" (You, in this case plural you-s). This term is related to other terms Loma (which foreigners call Moni). There are other terms like Yali, Nduga, Walak, Nggem, all these tribes are Koteka Tribes. I am not allowed to explain the meanings of all these terms (tribes). 
In our stories, the Chief of the Koteka Tribes, who were all originated from Kurima Valley ordered his peoples to spread across the valleys and go westward, by saying "you go there, you go here, I will do this, you will do that!" All terms used in this last speech such as "you go there", "I go here", "you do this", "I do that", are then became the names of the Koteka Tribes.
In this story, the term "Dani" never existed and even does not exist in our own daily reference to our tribes here. Only scholars who were educated in modern schools and read modern books begin to refer to themselves as Lani or Dani, by dividing up the regions. The problem of Lani or Dani is not ours, as we know who we are, and we call in the names that we were using before foreigners came. We are all Lani, Loma, Yali, Nggem, Walak, Nduga, Amungme, Kamoro, nobody in our tribes we knew as Dani before foreigners came in and began calling us differently.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baliemarabica (talk • contribs) 01:19, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dani is Lani, it is just a matter of "who" is referring to us 

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message: it's reported a lot online that the Ndani have a tradition of grieving family members by severing a finger segment. this seems to be the thing they are most known for in the wider world, so, even if it's false, it should be mentioned as a popular misconception Anothracountiges (talk) 02:49, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of the finger thing?