There are exactly 11 basic colour terms in Estonian: valge 'white', must 'black', punane 'red', kollane 'yellow', roheline 'green', sinine 'blue', pruun 'brown', hall 'grey', roosa 'pink', lilla 'purple', and oranZ 'orange'.This corresponds to the fully developed Berlin and Kay's Stage VII colour system.Estonian encodes the basic colour terms in the universal way predicted by the theory of Berlin and Kay.
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