All languages I know of have four basic directions: left, right, backwards and forwards. Are there any that don’t?
Maybe you could have just three: forwards, backwards-left and backwards-rigth? Or more then four, maybe with distinct names for some or all of the four in-between the common ones
I don’t know that culture, but in general those are questions they learn not to say. Perhaps they point to a place “there” and that is enough.
When translating from a gendered language to English (which doesn’t grammatically require a gender for everything) I often has to guess was gender important or not - sometimes this is not obvious.