Dating back centuries, the names of our everyday colors have origins in the earliest known languages. According to linguists: There was a time when there were no color-names as such . . . and that not ...

From Abidji to English to Zapoteco, the perception and naming of color is remarkably consistent in the world's languages. Across cultures, people tend to classify hundreds of different chromatic ...

Claire Bowern receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Australian Research Council. She is Vice-President of the Endangered Language Fund. It is striking that English color words ...

These colors of the rainbow don’t get quite as much publicity as ROYGBIV, from puke to Isabella. (One of those two hues has a pretty sickening backstory, and it’s probably not the one you think.) But ...

Every June, there is a public celebration of the reigning monarch's official birthday called Trooping the Colour. This year, it will take place on Saturday 17 June, and it will be King Charles' first ...