{"id":4210,"date":"2026-07-12T19:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T19:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2026-07-12T19:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T19:08:26","slug":"an-aboriginal-australian-people-of-northern-queensland-speak-a-language-with-no-words-for-left-or-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4210","title":{"rendered":"An Aboriginal Australian people of northern Queensland speak a language with no words for left or right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spacedaily.com\/d-an-aboriginal-australian-people-of-northern-queensland-speak-a-language-with-no-words-for-left-or-right-only-for-north-south-east-and-west-so-instead-of-asking-you-to-move-your\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"An Aboriginal Australian people of northern Queensland speak a language with no words for left or right \u2014 only for north, south, east, and west \u2014 so instead of asking you to move your left foot, they will ask you to move your east foot, and can point due north almost without thinking\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Posts-1600840-2026-07-08T094315.410.png\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">spacedaily.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">An Aboriginal Australian people of northern Queensland speak a language with no words for left or right \u2014 only for north, south, east, and west \u2014 so instead of asking you to move your left foot, they will ask you to move your east foot, and can point due north almost without thinking<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Ask a Guugu Yimithirr speaker to shift along the bench and you will not hear anything about your left or your right. You will hear a compass point. Move a<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}