• @[email protected]
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    410 months ago

    Do you have a source? There is a common myth that innuits have 100+ words for snow, which is stretch beyond any reasonable sense, I’m afraid this might be similar.

    • @ace_garp
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      510 months ago

      The main studies of a persons language constraining their colour perception derive from the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

      This article explains some of the different language and perceptions across different cultures:

      https://abnormalways.com/color/color-perception-across-cultures/

      The peoples I had heard of previously, are the Himba tribespeople, with a ‘hyper-perception’ of green hues.

      This is an ongoing research area, and I was hoping someone in the field could outline the recent key changes in understanding of cultural effects on colour perception.

      There are papers such as this one, that I can partially follow, but would benefit from an interpretation from others more knowledgeable than me.

      https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0158725