Brent Berlin and Paul Kay

Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1969.

P273.B47 Anthropology Library

"This volume undoubtedly constitutes the most intriguing and original book written on the subject in many decades.... Based on a selection, arrangement, and comparison of color terms from ninety-eight languages or dialects, they (the authors) claim to have shown that in all languages there are two-to-less-than-a-dozen basic color terms and that these have developed with direct psychological referene to eleven universal color categories..."

From: Harold C. Conklin 1973 review of "Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution."
American Anthropologist, vol. 75, no. 4, p. 931-942.