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Many Australian Aboriginal languages, such as Guugu Yimithirr, do not use relative spatial terms like 'left' and 'right.' Instead, speakers always use absolute compass directions — north, south, east, and west — even when describing small-scale positions. This means speakers always know which direction they are facing and develop an extraordinary innate sense of direction from childhood.

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