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The colour blue was so hard to make that many ancient languages had no word for it at all.

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Blue is rare in nature and its pigments were costly, so cultures from ancient Greece onward often grouped it with green or black. Some scholars argue a distinct word for blue tends to appear late in a language's life.

Türkçe

Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Mavi rengi elde etmek o kadar zordu ki birçok eski dilde mavi için hiçbir sözcük yoktu.

Mavi doğada nadirdir ve boyaları pahalıydı; bu yüzden antik Yunan'dan itibaren birçok kültür onu yeşille ya da siyahla birlikte andı. Bazı araştırmacılar, maviye özgü bir sözcüğün bir dilin yaşamında geç ortaya çıkma eğiliminde olduğunu savunur.

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