• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    There’s another great example of a language based on a small island with a hill/mountain in the middle where their words for direction are polar. Essentially, clockwise/anticlockwise and shoreward/inland, instead of left/right and forward/back.

    edit: it’s the island of Manam. Wikipedia has a great picture of the island showing its central volcano.