Comment on is there any language that doesn't have four basic directions?

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I cannot find it anymore, but remember recently reading a blog post about a language where their concept of directions was “toward the river”, “away from the river (or: into the jungle)”, “down the river”, “up the river”, and they expressed only those directions. So when a western researcher asked them how they called “left” and “right”, they gave different answers every time, or something like that…

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