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Na*************:

Some thoughts (warning: this is long, but personally I think it's worth it to read it):
1. Most people separate their laundry into darks, lights, and reds. And I know that's mainly so the colors don't bleed too much but hey who's to say we couldn't separate our laundry into blue-ish colors, yellow-ish colors, and reddish colors? But we still do darks, lights, and reds. So I wonder if the black, white, red thing mentioned in the video has developed in other societies in ways like that.
2. I've heard of some tribal language in Africa where they don't have specific words for numbers. They only have words for a lot, a little, more than, less than, and so on. So that kinda reminded me of this, and I wonder if there's any sort of language pattern for numbers and stuff like that across world languages.
3. When it was talking about the language that only had a few specific color words but had other words that coresponded to common objects that had that color, it reminded me of color words in Japanese; basically way way back in the day, the Japanese didn't have words for gray, pink, or orange. (The majority of the lastly-developed colors in societies as mentioned in the video.) If they wanted to describe something that was gray, they said ねずみ色 (pronounced nezumi iro, which translates to "mouse color") and if they wanted to describe something pink they would say 桃色 (pronounced momo iro and translating to "peach color"). Also correct me if you know more about this but for orange (I knew the ones for gray and pink already but I had to look up the old word for orange so correct me if I'm wrong) they said 橙色 (daidai iro) which actually translates somewhat to "orange color". However, nowadays, they usually say グレイ、ピンク、and オレンジ or オレンジ色, which are pronounced "gurei", "pinku", and "orenji" or "orenji iro", which are all pronounced like the English words for those colors, so I guess they developed more as their language was influenced by other cultures.
4. Lastly, I am grapheme synesthetic, meaning I relate things like numbers and letters to colors. Synesthesia is very rare but I was wondering if people who live in a region or speak a language where less focus is put on varying types of colors have less of a chance of having color-linked synesthesia of any sort, or if there is any link like that. I mean as far as I know, if you have synesthesia, you're just born with it, but maybe people who have the grapheme form and speak languages where there are fewer color groupings don't realize that they have it, because they don't think about separating colors into such specific groups and applying them to such big groups like letters or numbers. (By the way I'm not trying to say that would make them stupid or anything; it's just a random neuroscience-y question.)
If you survived this far through my nerd freak-out session, congratulations, you get a gold star. Thank you and good day. And please reply with any other thoughts!!
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An************:

5:23 "Blue, on the other hand, was fairly scarce."
Water and Sky: Am i a joke to you?

jo***************************:

1:40 Color "Hierarchy"
3:46 Color-object comparison
4:02 Hanuno'o color spectrum
4:28 Berlin and Kay universal map of color

Bi**********:

01:46 , "Black then white are all I see in my infancy, red and yellow then came to be , reaching out to me, lets me see"..... OMFG

MM****:

0:44 they have one of new zealand's official languages in here, omg

IK**********:

1:59 when that fly that has been annoying you all day finally positions itself perfectly for you to murck it.

ni**:

The music starting at 5:58 is beautiful. Cheers to your composer!

ri****:

1:44 this is fascinating, thanks!!

Do**********:

5:23 "Blue, on the other hand, was fairly scarce."
Water and Sky: Am i a joke to you?

Jo*******:

Small correction at 0:44 Blue in Maori is "Kikorangi". "Kahurangi" can also be used to describe the color blue and is actually used more often than Kikorangi, although Kikorangi is technically more correct.

Puru comes in 2 forms and both forms are loan words, as in they are just English words using Maori pronunciation and letters.
1. Pūru is just 'Bull' as in the cow.
2. Purū is just 'blue' using Maori pronunciation, i had to google this because I've never heard it used like... ever? No one uses 'Puru' when they want to say blue, we use mostly kahurangi and sometimes kikorangi for darker shades of blue.

For anyone wondering putting a Macron or a line above a vowel like this > purū just means that the vowel is a long vowel. In some Maori dialects we use Macrons, in other they just double the vowel. So purū becomes Puruu and Pūru becomes Puuru.

Lo****:

0:25 Not Purpurnyy, its Fialetovyy

 

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Top Comments : [Vox] The surprising pattern behind color names around the world

Zi************:

5:25 "Blue is fairly scarce"

*sees sky and ocean

Mi***:

just refer to the colors by their hex value, duh

Di*****:

Ah yes, I am watching a video about colors while being colorblind, definitily my smartest idea

La**********:

Dividing colors between "light", "dark" and "red" seemed weird only until I realized that's exactly how I divide laundry.

Vo************:

-"Blue was rare before industrial revolution"
-Sky: "Am i a joke to you?"
-Violets: "You guys got colors?"

lo**:

my mother language isn't english and I've noticed that people use the word blue to describe both a lighter or a darker shade of the same color. In my language we say the word azul (blue) and celeste (light blue). I didn't know there wasn't a different word for those colors so I used to get so mad at people, I was like aRE YOU BLIND OR WHAT

Li***********:

In urdu we have two colors for green, “hara” which is more common and means green. “Sabz” however is a lesser common word which means the “color of vegetables”. So yeah theres that

Lo**:

Hey, what colour is your hair?






Kpe

il*****:

Guys, you mixed up Siniy and Goluboy on Russian scheme. They should switch places. Source: am from Russia
Edit: Vox fixed it up!

Ba*********:

Red is Nature's warning color. Survival makes it most important.

Be********:

Did anyone else think colour names meant colours which are used as names, such as 'Violet' or 'Jade'? (please like so I know it isn't just me)

S*:

In Somali there also isn't a word for brown or orange. Most of my family members call brown kaffee. Which is coffee

Tu******:

Of course the most important colours to humans are night, day, and berry.

He****:

Actually, in Russian language we have a word for yellow-green: салатовый (salatoviy)

Da**********:

Gotta love the "Wet" and "Dry" spectrum of colours
Imagine someone being rasist in this language! "Them M O I S T people are taking all our jobs!"

st****:

I like that the pic of the two researchers is of them making music

Ta**********:

When your colorblind and you have no idea what they're talking about.

pe****:

This is so weird that we, Russians, have a separate word for light blue, making it a basic colour in our language

Al******:

'red is fundamentally more different than the others' more like humans/mammals have evolved to easily notice the colour red as noticing blood is kinda important...

Ar*********:

In Turkish the color “brown” is said “the color of coffee”

Ja*********:

Yo, vox. Kenya ain't Tanzania.

Pa************:

What impressed me was that the two linguists were jamming out with a piano and a gut bucket.

Ar*:

humans : create names for colors
also humans : y did we create these names for these colors

Th*******:

Me: How do you go through life with just three words for all the colors?

Inuits: How do you go through life with just one word for snow?

Mi************:

Понятия не имею, как и почему это попало ко Мне в рекомендации!! В целом мысль интересная, шевелит другие мысли и заставляет размышлять об этом..

He***:

Think about it, there's no proof that all of us see the same colours.

Sleep well tonight.

Po**********:

In Persian language:
Blue = "Abi", translates to "watery"
Brown = "Ghahvei", translates to "from coffee"
Purple = "Banafsh", translates to "viola flower" (a purple colored flower called "banafsheh")
Yellow = "Zard", translates to "from gold" (Zar = gold)
Green = "Sabz", translates similar to the word "vegetable-y" (Sabzi = vegetable)
Orange = "Naranji", translates to another citrus similar to "orange fruit" but with a more sour taste.
Pink = "Soorati", translates to "face colored"
Gray = "Khakestari", translates to "Ash colored"
I just realized they are all comparison words other than the words for black, white, and red.

Zo********:

Me, an artist, replying to the starting question: Cobalt, a very dark Lavender, and a coffee brown
Video: general color names
Me: a


Edit: I adORE the ways some of these languages and cultures utilize such descriptive linguistics instead of just having basic terms for colors. It’s how I think about color too, so it actually makes me really happy to know that there are societies that developed with such endearment for the beauty of their surroundings, and, in the case of some, I appreciated the attention to the emotions that such visuals elicit! Descriptive linguistics and cultural difference make me so happy ☆
The less social science-y stuff is quite interesting too! I’m certainly more invested in cultural information, but the way that light influences our world as an element of sorts is also something fun to contemplate

AC****:

Russian language have "purpurnyj" as rather a shade, while the main color called "fiolietovyj" (violet instead of purple).
And in the main Ukrainian dialect of Russian language we have a second purple color at almost the same level of recognition - "sirienievyj" or "buzkovyj" in Ukrainian (means something like lilac). Might cause misunderstanding:
1:-... There, woman in a purple skirt.
2:-Where? I can't see her.
3:-In lilac skirt.
2:-See her.
So Russians generaly mean "purple" speaking of "violet".
Russian speaking Ukrainians have two distinct colors in place, speaking about "violet" and "lilac". It's hard to explain, but "sirienievyj" feels as more intense purple, and "fioletovyj" - as more "heavy" and/or bluish purple. It is stick into head that much so we continue to use 13-color model when we are speaking Ukrainian. They say, in Russian city of Saint Petersburg they also use "sirienievyj" more often than common shades, though I do not know for sure if they are actually share 13-color model of two purples.
I find this very interesting.

 

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