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All cultures use a word for warm colours and word for cool colours as a starting preference, with the rest being "colour of X" with X being blood or sky or so on. At that point, they follow a scientifically described path adding basic colour terms to their vocabulary, letting the initial two eventually specialize into white and black. Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_color_term#Basic
Russian terms in particular are very beautiful; they can trace their origins to Indo-European, Turkish, Caucasian (like Georgian), and Finnic sources, with the word colour itself being a diminutive of flower. It's no wonder the civil war was described in terms of the white army, black baron, red army, blues, browns, etc.
Seeing is only very sparsely connected to it; artists can distinguish hues the same way musicians can have perfect/relative pitch. Some people have done studies on some African's ability to distinguish between different shades of blue, but the study in question has a lot of problems, including but not limited to a lack of testing for distinguishing genetic/epigenetic markers affecting areas associated with sight and sight perception (eyeball end and brain end of things). The findings of the admittedly flawed study show that several of the people, belong to a tribe speaking a Nilo-Saharan language with only four colour terms were able to distinguish between blues and greens in a way we couldn't; however, with practice, it soon became easy for English monoglots to distinguish the shades once learning the distinction from the Nilo-Saharans. Something similar happened with me and the two Russian blues; now goluboy seems to me to be one of the gay colours, not a shade of blue anymore than pink is a shade of red. Likewise, you can have perfect pitch even if you don't speak Chinese, Swedish, or Yoruba, you can have it even if you speak a language like English, with no consistent rhythm, meter, stress, or tone.
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