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Yes, the book described in this Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms:_Their_Universality_and_Evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by tokenadult 13y ago
Yes, the book described in this Wikipedia article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms:_Their_Universality_and_Evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms:_Their_Unive...
(which I read years ago) makes a case for a language-universal gradation of color terms in the spectrum of visible light, with some languages having few of the terms, and some languages having more, and some languages having quite a few. (In the languages I know best, English has more color terms than Chinese, but Russian has more than English.)