| Different cultures distinguish colours into different classes. You can do an experiment where you give a person sheet of randomly colored pages and ask them to divide them into named stacks. A western civilisation member might do something like Red, Brown, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Pink, Violet, Grey and perhaps do something special with White/Black. (11 basic colours) A Russian will most likely split blue into light blue and dark blue. (12 basic colours) Himba people have 5 basic colours: Serandu – used to describe reds, browns, oranges and some yellows Dambu – includes a variety of greens, reds, beige and yellows Zuzu – used to described most dark colours, black, dark red, dark purple, dark blue, etc. Vapa – used for some yellows and white Buru – used to describe a collection of greens and blues |