All English speakers understand basic color words. In English, those basic categories include red, blue and so on. But most of them belong to just a few color categories. If you look through a box of 64 crayons, youвЂ™ll find creative names for all the colors. Why? And whatвЂ™s going on in the brain when it encounters familiar or unfamiliar categories? Researchers who study languages, psychology and the brain are on the case. You may similarly name and categorize smells, sounds, directions, family relationships and other experiences differently. You just might name and categorize that color differently than someone who speaks another language. Unless you have one of these rare conditions, it doesnвЂ™t matter if you speak Kyrgyz, Russian or English. These people may see many more colors than the rest of us. There are also reports of an even rarer condition that adds a fourth type of cone. In rare cases, a person may have fewer types of cones than usual. Three different types of cones capture a vast rainbow of around 1 million different hues. The human eye contains light-detecting cells called rods and cones. But to a Russian speaker they are as different as pink and red are to someone who speaks English.ДЄll people share the same type of brain with senses that work the same way. Goluboy and siniy are usually translated as light blue and dark blue. That means вЂњblue.вЂќ However, Russians would not call the ocean goluboy. In Russian, the sky is goluboy (GOL-uh-boy). Like many Kyrgyz people, Ibraimova also speaks Russian. Kyrgyz has another word for green, but itвЂ™s not as common. вЂњWe use kok for green color,вЂќ says Albina Ibraimova, a former English teacher in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The Kyrgyz word kok (pronounced like cook) means blue. In Kyrgyzstan, a country in Central Asia, a traditional song opens with a line about mountains touching the blue sky. But what if you speak a different language? Your answers to these kinds of questions may change in surprising ways - and not just because the words you use sound different. If you speak English, this is all very obvious. What color is the sky? What about the ocean? Or the grass? These may seem like simple questions with easy answers.

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