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edel (southwest), and loe (northwest), in Finnish koillinen (northeast), kaakko (southeast), lounas (southwest), and luode (northwest). In Japanese, there is the interesting situation that native Japanese words (yamato kotoba, kun readings of kanji) are used for the cardinal directions (such as minami for ?, south), but borrowed Chinese words (on readings of kanji) are used for intercardinal directions (such as to-nan for ??, southeast, lit. "east-south"). In the Malay language,

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