Odors are expressible in language, if you speak the right language

Smells are supposedly difficult to name and talk about. It has therefore been suggested that olfactory representations are not accessible to language. In a recent study, published in Cognition, Niclas Burenhult and Asifa Majid show that odors are expressible as long as you speak the right language. Speakers of Jahai have no difficulty expressing many and abstract olfactory concepts which English speakers cannot express. The study is reported on in ScienceDaily: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140103085248.htm and also here: bps-research-digest.blogspot.se More information can be found at: (Swedish only)