Do you consider the “Big Six” to be red, orange, yellow, green, blue, & purple? Because that’s totally culturally constructed. Abstract colors, as opposed to colors of things (like “lilac” or “brick”) vary from culture to culture in how they’re defined. The focalities of color (what “yellow” looks like, etc) aren’t exactly the primary colors as defined by retinal response.
Chinese tradition has seven “Colors of the Rainbow” roughly translating as red, orange, yellow, green, teal, blue, & purple.
One European language (Hungarian?) considers olive a major color, distinct from both yellow & green.
(At least, according to Anderson’s Folk-Taxonomies in Early English)
Western Europeans & Anglophones elevated “orange” (originally the color of oranges) to a major color, but regard “indigo” as just a shade of blue (or, bizarrely, a shade of purple which is not the color of indigo). And “blue” in English covers a range of colors from голубой to синий–a range with as much variety as yellow, orange, & yellow-green put together, lumped under one word.
Scientifically, I would consider the Six Big Hue Points on the Color Wheel (as far as present science is concerned) to be red, yellow, green, cyan/turquoise (aka printer’s blue), not-quite-indigo blue, & magenta (which is also pink).
But colors as understood psycholinguistically aren’t those compass points.[ul][li]Colors can be defined by luminosity. This yellow shade is the same hue & saturation as this shade half as bright–but some speakers would define “yellow” not to include the latter.[]Saturation changes things as well. This orange is more or less the same hue & brilliance as this tan, but they will be called different colors.[]And of course “blue” is any sufficiently highly saturated tone between printer’s blue & indigo, except in certain technical applications. Some have tried to say the complement of scarlet red is “cyan”, the complement of orange is “azure”, & the complement of yellow is “blue”–which works for technical purposes, but really, historically, blue, cyan, & azure are all synonyms.[/li][*]“Red” has sometimes included what we now call “orange” & it’s still quite a broad range, despite some speakers trying to whittle away at by expanding the definition of “orange.” “Orange,” “yellow,” & “purple” cover somewhat narrow ranges by comparison.[/ul]