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Seems unlikely to me: there are many nomadic tribes, but this linguistic particularity and these abilities in spatial orientation were only reported for this tr
by jkn 14y ago
Seems unlikely to me: there are many nomadic tribes, but this linguistic particularity and these abilities in spatial orientation were only reported for this tribe (AFAIK).
- klenwell 14y agoAccording to the professor on whose research this information is based, a third of the world's languages have this linguistic peculiarity. You can hear her account around 30 minute mark of this RadioLab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/2011/jan/25/birds-eye-view/ http://www.radiolab.org/2011/jan/25/birds-eye-view/
- jkn 14y agoCan't listen to it right now, but this article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383131592767868.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870346730457538... suggests that speakers of all these languages share the good spatial orientation abilities. Anyway it's true then that my argument doesn't hold. One should first verify if there is a subset of nomadic peoples that lack this language feature, and that they have poorer orientation abilities.