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 ...

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

By the time she started teaching Guugu Yimithirr, it was only spoken by about 1400 people, mostly grandparents. At first, "it was like a foreign language to [the students]," she said.

One other oddity in Guugu Yimithirr is that you don’t have a left or a right hand. You can have an eastern hand, which becomes a western hand when you turn to face the other way.

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 author looks at the intersection of language, culture, and thought. If the ancient Greeks had no word for blue, did they see the same thing as we do when we look at the sea?

The crew had generally amicable dealings with the local Guugu Yimithirr people and recorded more than 130 words of their language, including the word 'gangurru', from which 'kangaroo' is derived.

But it was on tour for 10 days earlier this year in Guugu Yimithirr and Kuku Yalanji Countries on Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula with the Black Image band, that he began to heal.

HOPE Vale is a cracker of a community on Cape York, about 50km north of Cooktown, mostly populated by Guugu Yimithirr people.