Going to a Wandala town

The study demonstrates that some elements of culture may be reflected in the grammatical structure of the language. The demonstration is drawn from the coding of directionality of movement in Wandala, a Central Chadic language. In this language, movement to or from a town inhabited by Wandala people is coded in a different way than movement to or from a town not inhabited by speakers of Wandala. It is as if speakers of English were using a different form for the concept of going to New York from the concept of going to Paris.This highly idiosyncratic phenomenon may have a well-motivated explanation.