Spatial Frames of Reference
Is direction expressed relative to me, to a landmark, or to the world?
The system a language uses to describe spatial location and direction — relative to the speaker, to a landmark or to absolute compass-like axes.
- T1 · Documented
Field record pending — no linked language specimens yet.
What linguistic research records.
- T2 · Interpreted
spatial APIs assume a single frame of reference without recording which
How Lanskrit reads the code deficit.
- T3 · Proposed
frame-tagged vectors and positions
Speculative constructs — not executable code.
- T4 · Executed
Not yet compiled to a deterministic runtime.
Deterministic runtime — the graft as running machinery.
Each tier is a different kind of claim. We keep them visually distinct so a reader can never confuse a field record with a deterministic run.
Documented
What linguistic research records.
- frame of reference in use
- viewpoint of the speaker
- relation to fixed axes
Interpreted
How Lanskrit reads the code deficit.
- spatial APIs assume a single frame of reference without recording which
Proposed
Speculative constructs — not executable code.
- frame-tagged vectors and positions
Executed
Deterministic runtime — the graft as running machinery.
No executable runtime yet. This capability has not been compiled to a deterministic machine.
- frame-tagged coordinates
- safer geometric composition across frames
- Frame-of-reference preferences differ across communities and contexts; do not infer cognition from language alone.
No specific languages have been linked to this capability yet.
Cited as examples of the feature, not as claims about all speakers of these languages.
Source required
Research source pending verification.
Requires careful sourcing.
- Record version
- 0.1
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-21
- Controversy level
- moderate