Editing Color term (section)

====Stage I (dark and light)====
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! style="background-color:#c0c0c0;" | Stage I<ref name=Kay99>{{cite journal |last1=Kay |first1=Paul |author-link2=Luisa Maffi |last2=Maffi |first2=Luisa |year=1999 |title=Color appearance and the emergence and evolution of basic color lexicons |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=101 |issue=4 |pages=743–760 |doi=10.1525/aa.1999.101.4.743|doi-access=free }}</ref>
! style="font-weight:normal;" | light–warm (white/yellow/red)<br/>dark–cool (black/blue/green)
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Stage I contains two terms, white and black (light and dark); these terms are referenced broadly to describe other undefined color terms. For example, the [[Yali people|Yali]] highland group in New Guinea identify the color of blood as black. This is because blood, as a relatively dark liquid, is grouped into the same color classification as black.

In the [[Bassa language]], there are two terms for classifying colors: {{lang|bsq|ziza}} (white, yellow, orange, and red) and {{lang|bsq|hui}} (black, violet, blue, and green).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McNeill |first1=N. B. |title=Colour and colour terminology |journal=Journal of Linguistics |date=28 November 2008 |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=21–33 |doi=10.1017/S002222670000311X|s2cid=26668333 }}</ref>

In the [[Pirahã language]], there appear to be no color terms beyond describing lightness and darkness.<ref>Kay, Paul. (2007). [http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/myl/languagelog/archives/004399.html ''Pirahã Color Terms'']. Retrieved 17 March 2019.</ref>

The [[Grand Valley Dani|Dani language]] of [[western New Guinea]] differentiates only two basic colors: {{lang|dni|mili}} for cool/dark shades such as blue, green, and black; and {{lang|dni|mola}} for warm/light colors such as red, yellow, and white.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fl8gAQAAIAAJ&q=mili+mola++|title=The Invention of Basic Colour Terms|first=Barbara Ann Christine|last=Saunders|year=1992|publisher=R.U.U.–I.S.O.R.|isbn=9789051870879 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/2800917|title=Probabilities, Sampling, and Ethnographic Method: The Case of Dani Colour Names|author=Heider, Eleanor Rosch|year=1972|journal=Man|volume=7|issue=3|pages=448–466|doi=10.2307/2800917|jstor=2800917 }}</ref>