🌈 How many colours are there? The surprising pattern behind colour names around the world!

A great video from Vox (link) which explores the way that colours have become recognised in societies.

As colour is a spectrum, at what stage, or cut off point, do we give a particular area of the spectrum a new name?

The video shows that some societies only use 3 different colours:

• Black
• White
• Red

And that some studies have theorised that societies tend to follow a pattern as the name more distinct colours.

I thought it would be interesting given the number of different languages spoken on Steemit to discuss with different language speakers. According to the video the English language has 11 distinct colours, whereas Russian has 12 (the same as English but with blue split into light and dark).

Personally, I feel that in English blue is also referred to as 2 distinct colours - most commonly I would say 'navy blue' or 'light blue' if I needed to specify something like a t-shirt.

What do you think, multi-linguals of Steemit?

Does anyone speak a language where you have more distinct patterns than in Russian? (i.e. more than 12)