Fun Language Fact: Colors

Did you know that not all colors have names in all languages? And not all languages have the same number of words for colors.

There are languages that have only two words for colors -- something like black and something like white -- and every color gets called one of those two options. The Pirah? language in the Amazon is one of those languages. Darker colors are called the black term and lighter ones the white term.

If a language has three words for colors, it always has a dark and a light one and the third is almost always a term for red. Wobé from The Ivory Coast is one of them. These languages might classify orange and yellow or even sometimes green under the red title.

The more you know.

Comment: How many words does your native language have for colors? (Don't count variations of the same color, like light blue and dark blue.) Please answer below.