Diversité linguistique et culturelle
Languages don’t all have the same number of terms for colors – scientists have a new theory why
The conversation.com - 18 septembre 2017, 21:01 CEST People with standard vision can see millions of distinct colors. But human language categorizes these into a small set of words. In an industrialized culture, most people get by with 11 color words: black, white, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, orange, pink, purple and gray. That’s what we have in American English. Maybe if you’re an...