Universal 1175: ‘north’ &/v ‘south’ ⇒ ‘east’ &/v ‘west’
- Original
- Languages having terms for ‘north’ and/or ‘south’ typically have terms for ‘east’ and/or ‘west’ but not vice versa.
- Standardized
- IF there are terms for ‘north’ and/or ‘south’, THEN there are terms for ‘east’ and/or ‘west’.
- Keywords
- spatial orientation, direction
- Domain
- lexicon
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- 127 languages surveyed in Brown 1983
- Source
- Brown 1983: 144
- Counterexamples
