ext_13655 ([identity profile] padparadscha.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] bloodyrosemccoy 2007-03-19 01:49 am (UTC)

Vietnamese, Hawaiian, Mayan languages, Zulu. Japanese, Chinese, and Korean each used to have a single blue/green term, but that has changed. Some languages have different boundaries for blue and green--I think Celtic languages and a Middle Eastern language family, though I forget the specific one, describe some things we'd call "green" blue, and vice versa. It's actually a big field of study in linguistics.

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