How “blue” and “green” appeared in a language that didn’t have words for them
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A new study suggests the way a language divides up color space can be influenced by contact with other languages. Tsimane’ people who learned Spanish as a second language began to classify blue and green into using separate words, which their native tongue does not do.
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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/mvea on 2023-11-05 11:58:17.

Original Title: How “blue” and “green” appear in a language that didn’t have words for them. People of a remote Amazonian society who learned Spanish as a second language began to interpret colors in a new way, by using two different words from their own language to describe blue and green, when they didn’t before.