Timeline for Languages with Many Color Words for Value or Chroma
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| Nov 9, 2022 at 20:06 | comment | added | Mark Beadles | @ETam The usual story told to explain this is that at least historically, fruit formed a large enough part of our diet that it was important to determine the degree of ripeness, which in turn is reliably indicated by hue. | |
| Nov 8, 2022 at 23:47 | answer | added | user6726 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 8, 2022 at 21:05 | answer | added | earlyinthemorning | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 22, 2022 at 3:42 | comment | added | Yellow Sky | You'll be surprised to find out how many languages have just 2 or 3 words for all the colors in the world ;) Colors aren't at all essential for a person to survive, note how color-blind people do well in our colorful society. | |
| Sep 21, 2022 at 18:17 | comment | added | E Tam | Although that is an interesting idea, it has a flaw. If languages lack color words because precision descriptions of colors were not needed, they why do so many languages have a large variety of color words for hue? Unless you can explain why determining hues was important for human societies throughout history while value and saturation were not, this explanation does not work. | |
| Sep 18, 2022 at 22:08 | comment | added | Yellow Sky | Usually robust vocabularies exist in the semantic spheres which are important for the people who often speak about them and for whom being very exact in that is a vital matter, so what you're looking for is found in the communities in which minute variation of colors are important, like among painters, car sellers, lipstick and hair-dye makers, color printing specialists, etc. It's unlikely that there ever existed peoples among which such professions were so important that influenced their whole languages. I'm afraid your search is all in vain. | |
| Sep 17, 2022 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackLinguist/status/1571061420720013313 | ||
| Sep 16, 2022 at 21:48 | history | edited | Sir Cornflakes |
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| S Sep 16, 2022 at 20:44 | history | asked | E Tam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |