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Re:A linguist on Arrival's alien language (2016) by seewhatIsee on Monday March 27, 2017 @10:58AM (#13968225)
The Himba tribe in Africa have an interesting perception of color which is believed to stem from their language[1]. For example, their language uses the same word for what westerners separately call green and blue. As a result, they cannot seem to distinguish the colors when presented to them.

[1] https://vimeo.com/120808489

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Re:A linguist on Arrival's alien language (2016) by jessaustin on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:49PM (#13973069)
"Grue" is actually pretty common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...
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Re:A linguist on Arrival's alien language (2016) by IIIIIIIIIIII on Monday March 27, 2017 @03:35PM (#13970937)
And Russians see two different colors where Westerners only see "Blue".

http://www.pnas.org/content/104/19/7780.full

There are more examples.

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Re:A linguist on Arrival's alien language (2016) by skyisblue on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @06:57AM (#13975551)
The ancient Japanese also had one word for shades of green and blue.
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