Guugu Yimithirr is an Australian language in the Pama-Nyungan language family that is spoken in parts of Queensland, Australia. According to Omniglot, in the 2016 census, there were around 780 ...

Guugu Yimithirr, or Guguyimidjir, has no words for left and right. Instead, speakers give all their descriptions and directions based roughly on the fixed four cardinal points of the compass ...

People in such cultures (Guugu Yimithirr is one of a select few) view the world and describe it not as something that extends outward from them, but as a realm of fixed geographical coordinates beyond ...

It's tempting, therefore, to say that Russians pay attention to their journeys as much as the Guugu Yimithirr. And of course all these verbs of motion conjugate across first, second and third ...

This article explores the relation between language and cognition by examining the case of "absolute" (cardinal direction) spatial description in the Australian aboriginal language Guugu Yimithirr.

Guugu Yimithirr speakers use cardinal directions (North, South) even to speak about events on a small spatial scale. This difference affects spatial cognition.

Guugu Yimithirr is the mother tongue for the people of Hope Vale, 40km north-east of Cooktown, and has traditionally been kept alive through intergenerational storytelling, but now it's turning to ...

The Europeans wrote down over 130 words of the Guugu Yimithirr language. One of those words was for a creature which is synonymous with Australia today—and that was kangaroo, as Geoff Weingarth ...

Words from 100 Indigenous languages are in the new edition of the Australian National Dictionary – reflecting a heightened interest in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.

The handover of part of Guugu Yimidhirr country, Queensland, to traditional owners marks the end of an ‘overwhelming’ land claim battle lasting three generations.