It is a universal characteristic of the human species. Because language is a cultural system, individual languages may classify objects and ideas in completely different fashions. For example, the sex or age of the speaker may determine the use of certain grammatical forms or avoidance of taboo words.
Many languages divide the color spectrum into completely different and unequal units of color.
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