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  2. Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate - Wikipedia

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    If a language contains five terms, then it contains terms for both green and yellow. If a language contains six terms, then it contains a term for blue. If a language contains seven terms, then it contains a term for brown. If a language contains eight or more terms, then it contains terms for purple, pink, orange or gray.

  3. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, it is uncommon in English speaking countries to use "Yellow" to refer to Asian people or "Red" to refer to Indigenous peoples of the Americas. This is due to historic negative associations of the terms (ex. Yellow Peril and Redskin). [22] [23] However, some Asians have tried to reclaim the word by proudly self-identifying as "Yellow".

  4. Color term - Wikipedia

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    These three dimensions can be defined in different ways, but often the most intuitive definition are the dimensions of the HSL/HSV color space: Hue: representing the different colors of the rainbow or color wheel (e.g. 'red', 'orange', 'yellow', etc.); roughly analogous to the color's wavelength or frequency.

  5. Yellow - Wikipedia

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    Yellow combined with red symbolized heat and energy. A room painted yellow feels warmer than a room painted white, and a lamp with yellow light seems more natural than a lamp with white light. As the color of light, yellow is also associated with knowledge and wisdom. In English and many other languages, "brilliant" and "bright" mean intelligent.

  6. Blue–green distinction in language - Wikipedia

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    The notion of "green" in modern European languages corresponds to light wavelengths of about 520–570 nm, but many historical and non-European languages make other choices, e.g. using a term for the range of ca. 450–530 nm ("blue/green") and another for ca. 530–590 nm ("green/yellow"). In many languages, the colors described in English as ...

  7. Lists of country names in various languages - Wikipedia

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    For languages written in other writing systems, write "Romanization - native script (language)", for example "Argentine - אַרגענטינע ‎ (Yiddish)", and alphabetize it in the list by the Romanized form. Due to its size, this list has been split into four parts: List of country names in various languages (A–C)

  8. Orange (word) - Wikipedia

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    The word "orange" is a noun and an adjective in the English language. In both cases, it refers primarily to the orange fruit and the color orange , but has many other derivative meanings. The word is derived from a Dravidian language , and it passed through numerous other languages including Sanskrit and based on Nārang in Persian and after ...

  9. Yellow (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    High yellow, skin pigmentation; Yellow (clothing), a Bangladesh-based fashion brand and retailer Yellow Corporation, a defunct United States freight company; Yubo, formerly Yellow, a social media app