The Maya language of Yucatan has only five basic color terms (?éek' 'black', cak 'red, pink, orange, rust colored', k'áan 'yellow, orange', sak 'white', and yá?a 'green'), but they appear in seventy-five compound stems that discriminate semantically among variables other than hue, including brightness, saturation, relative size and discreteness, opacity, and texture. A number of these stems are concerned with texture, as are many of the affect stems in this language, suggesting a semantic relationship between them. The same relationship between color compounds and affects is documented for Tzotzil, another Mayan language, for which there are almost one thousand color compounds.