Datapoint Singapore Bazaar Malay/'Green' and 'blue'

Bazaar Malay uses two different colour terms which derive from the Malay lexifier to represent green and blue. They are hijau and biru/bilu with some phonological variations. Biru, which means 'blue', is a Malay word. Although it seems as if it derived from the English word blue, Bazaar Malay speakers realize /r/ in biru as /l/ and hence bilu.

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Differentiation

Example 67-228:
hijau
hijau
green
green
Example 67-229:
bilu/biru
bilu/biru
blue
blue
Confidence:
Very certain