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Originally Posted by Sparrow
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Yes, And Aristotle speaks of the "three-coloured rainbow" in his Meteorologica (I've uploaded a version).
In Welsh, "Glas" can mean either blue or green.
It's not that people see fewer colours: they classify them in different ways depending on the language that they are using. (Arguably mid-blue and mid-green have more in common that pale icy blue and navy do.)
That's why it is a pity to lose a language: it may give us all sorts of new ways of looking at the world.