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If I showed you this paint chip and asked you to tell me what color it is, what would you say?

How about this one, and this one?

You probably said blue, purple, and brown, but if your native language is Wobe from Côte d 'Ivoire,

you probably would have used one word for all three.

That's because not all languages have the same number of basic color categories.

In English we have 11, Russian has 12, but some languages like Wobbe only have three

and researchers have found that if a language only has three or four basic colors

They can usually predict what those will be So how do they do it?

As you would expect different languages have different words for colors

But what interests researchers isn't those simple translations.

It's the question of which colors get names at all

Because as much as we think of colors in categories, the truth is that color is a spectrum.

It's not obvious why we should have a basic color term for this color, but not this one.

And until the 1960s, it was widely believed by anthropologists that cultures would just choose from the spectrum randomly.

But in 1969, two

Berkeley researchers, Paul Kay and Brent Berlin, published a book challenging that assumption.

They had asked 20 people who spoke different languages to look at these 330 color chips

and categorize each of them by their basic color term.

And they found hints of a universal pattern.

If a language had six basic color words, they were always for black or dark, white or light, red, green, yellow, and blue.

If it had four terms, they were for black, white, red, and then either green or yellow.

If it had only three, they were always for black, white, and red.

It's suggested that as languages develop, they create color names in a certain order first black and white, then red, then green and yellow,

then blue, then others like brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray.

The theory was revolutionary.

They weren't the first researchers interested in the question of how we name colors.

In 1858, William Gladstone, who would later become a four -term British Prime Minister, published a book on the ancient

Greek works of Homer.

He was struck by the fact that there weren't many colors at all in the text,

and when there were, Homer would use the same word for, quote, colors which, according to us, are essentially different.

He used the same word for purple to describe blood, a dark cloud, a wave,

and a rainbow, and he referred to the sea as wine -looking.

Gladstone didn't find any references to blue or orange at all.

Some researchers took this and other ancient writings to wrongly speculate that earlier societies were colorblind.

Later in the 19th century, an anthropologist named W .H .R.

Rivers went on an expedition to Papua New Guinea, where he found that some tribes only had words for red,

white, and black, while others had additional words for blue and green.

An expedition to investigate the cultures on a remote group of islands in the Torres Straits between Australia and New Guinea.

His brief was to investigate the mental characteristics of the islanders." He claims

that the number of color terms in a population was related to their,

quote, "...intellectual and cultural development." And he used his findings to claim that Papuans were less physically evolved than Europeans.

Berlin and Kay didn't make those racist claims, but their color hierarchy attracted a lot of criticism.

For one thing, critics pointed out that the study used a small sample size — 20 people,

all of whom were bilingual English speakers, not monolingual native speakers.

And almost all of the languages were from industrialized societies, hardly the best portrait of the entire world.

But it also had to do with defining what a basic color term is.

In the Yele language in Papua New Guinea, for example, there are only basic color terms for black, white, and red.

But there's a broad vocabulary of everyday objects, like the sky, ashes, and tree sap,

that are used as color comparisons that cover almost all English color words.

There are also languages like Hanuno 'o, from the Philippines, where a word can communicate both color and a physical feeling.

They have four basic terms to describe color, but they're on a spectrum of light vs. dark, strength vs. weakness, and wetness vs. dryness.

Those kinds of languages don't fit neatly into a color chip identification test.

But by the late 1970s, Berlin and Kay had a response for the critics.

They called it the World Color Survey.

They conducted the same labeling test on over 2 ,600 native speakers of 110 unwritten languages from non -industrialized societies.

They found that with some tweaks, the color hierarchy still checked out.

83 % of the languages fit into the hierarchy.

And when they averaged the center point of where each speaker labeled each of their language's colors, they wound up with a sort of heat map.

Those clusters matched pretty closely to the English speaker's averages, which are labeled here.

Here's how Paul Kaye puts it.

It just turns out that most languages make cuts in the same place.

Some languages make fewer cuts than others.

So, these color stages are widespread throughout the world, but why?

Why would a word for red come before a word for blue?

Some have speculated that the stages correspond to the salience of the color in the natural environment.

Red is in blood and in dirt.

Blue on the other hand was fairly scarce before manufacturing.

Recently, cognitive science researchers have explored this question by running computer simulations of how language evolves through conversations between people.

The simulations presented artificial agents with multiple colors at a time, and through a series of simple negotiations,

those agents developed shared labels for the different colors.

And the order in which those labels emerged?

First, reddish tones, then green, and yellow, then blue, then orange.

It matched the original stages pretty closely.

And it suggests that there's something about the colors themselves that leads to this hierarchy.

Red is fundamentally more distinct than the other colors.

So what does all this mean?

Why does it matter?

Well, it tells us that despite our many differences across cultures and societies,

there is something universal about how humans try to make sense of the world.

Thank you.

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यह स्पीकिंग पाठ वीडियो “The surprising pattern behind color names around the world” पर आधारित है। सबसे ज़्यादा दोहराए गए शब्द ये हैं: color, language, word, blue, term। इस वीडियो में शैडोइंग के लिए 66 वाक्य और 1058 शब्द हैं। बोला गया हिस्सा 6:22 लंबा है। वक्ता लगभग 166 शब्द प्रति मिनट की स्वाभाविक गति से बोलता है, जो रोज़मर्रा की बातचीत के करीब है। केवल 79% शब्द अंग्रेज़ी के 3,000 सबसे आम शब्दों में से हैं, इसलिए शब्दावली कठिन है।

इस वीडियो की मुख्य शब्दावली

वीडियो के 15 सीखने लायक शब्द, उच्चारण और अर्थ के साथ:

शब्द	उच्चारण	अर्थ
researcher संज्ञा	/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/	शोधकर्ता, शोधक
label संज्ञा	/ˈleɪ.bəl/	लेबल
hierarchy संज्ञा	/ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/	पदानुक्रम, अनुक्रम
purple संज्ञा	/ˈpɝ.pl̩/	जामुनी
investigate क्रिया	/ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/	शोध करना
critic संज्ञा	/ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/	आलोचक, विवेचक
everyday विशेषण	/ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/	दैनिक, रोज़ाना
cloud संज्ञा	/ˈklaʊ̯d/	मेघ, बादल
gray विशेषण	/ɡɹeɪ/	धूसर
racist संज्ञा	/ˈɹeɪ.sɪst/	जातिवादी
remote विशेषण	/ɹəˈməʊt̞/	दूर, दूरस्थ
translation संज्ञा	/tɹænzˈleɪʃən/	अनुवाद, भाषांतर
explore क्रिया	/ɪkˈsploɹ/	अन्वेषण करना
intellectual विशेषण	/ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/	बौद्धिक
distinct विशेषण	/dɪˈstɪŋkt/	भिन्न

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वक्ता जिन संरचनाओं का सबसे अधिक प्रयोग करता है, वीडियो के असली शब्दों के साथ:

संरचना	वीडियो में
Present perfect have/has + past participle — बीता हुआ काम जिसका असर अभी भी है	have found · have speculated · have explored
Passive voice be + past participle — ज़ोर इस पर कि क्या होता है, न कि कौन करता है	was struck · are labeled
Relative clauses who / which + उपवाक्य — व्यक्ति या वस्तु के बारे में अतिरिक्त जानकारी	people who spoke · averages, which are

ध्यान देने योग्य उच्चारण

वक्ता 7 बार संक्षिप्त रूपों का प्रयोग करता है, जैसे didn't, weren't, don't। इन्हें वैसे ही छोटा बोलें जैसा आप सुनते हैं।

“sh” और “zh” की ध्वनियाँ: expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/, simulation /ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
लंबे शब्द — बलाघात सही रखें: hierarchy /ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/, universal /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/

हिंदी भाषियों के लिए मुश्किल ध्वनियाँ:

/v/ और /w/ का फ़र्क़ — /v/ में ऊपर के दाँत निचले होंठ को छूते हैं, /w/ में होंठ गोल होते हैं: universal /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, evolve /ɪˈvɑlv/, everyday /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/, weakness /ˈwik.nɪs/
/z/ — इसे “ज” (/dʒ/) न बनाएँ: translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, physically /ˈfɪz.ɪ.kli/, categorize /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/, industrialize /ɪnˈdʌstɹiəlaɪz/
शब्द की शुरुआत में s + व्यंजन — पहले “इ” न जोड़ें: spectrum /ˈspɛktɹəm/, scarce /ˈskɛɚs/, speculate /ˈspɛk.jʊˌleɪt/

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अपनी आवाज़ रिकॉर्ड करें और मूल से तुलना करें, ख़ासकर researcher, label, hierarchy जैसे शब्दों पर ध्यान दें।

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