What’s that color above? If you’re English or American, your answer would probably be sky blue, or a light turquoise. But in Japanese it would be called mizu, which translates as “water”. The rest of ...

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Dating back centuries, the names of our everyday colors have origins in the earliest known languages. According to linguists: There was a time when there were no color-names as such . . . and that not ...

From Abidji to English to Zapoteco, the perception and naming of color is remarkably consistent in the world's languages. Across cultures, people tend to classify hundreds of different chromatic ...

Do people view color differently based on language? This beautiful visualization by Muyueh Lee tries to get a handle on the semantics of color by using the Chinese and English versions of Wikipedia as ...

Ted Gibson receives funding from the linguistics program at the National Science Foundation, Award 1534318. Bevil Conway receives funding from the Intramural Research Program of the National Eye ...