{"id":957,"date":"2011-08-02T08:35:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T08:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/junq.info\/?p=957"},"modified":"2011-08-02T09:18:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T09:18:11","slug":"why-do-some-languages-not-distinguish-between-blue-and-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/junq.info\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"Why do some languages not distinguish between blue and green?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Question of the Week, 02.08.2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The English language together with most indo-european languages makes a clear distinction between blue and green while many languages in tropical regions use the same expression for these two colors. In addition, some languages do not distinguish blue from black either. Possible explanations include the hypothesis that stronger UV radiation in tropical regions causes retinal damage thereby weaking people&#8217;s capacity of perceiving colors in the short-wave range of the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: The world atlas of language structures online, <a href=\"http:\/\/wals.info\/chapter\/134\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wals.info\/chapter\/134<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Jagau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are languages that use the same expression for blue and green. (Question of the Week, 02.08.2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}