As for the directional system, Taba has five basic semantic categories. These, along with their roughly translated English equivalents are: "ya" (up), "po" (down), "la" (sea), "le" (land) and "no" (there). Like demonstratives, directionals in Taba can be affixed to express more complex meanings, namely motion towards or from a direction, position in a direction, and parts of something that are oriented in a particular direction. This kind of morphology is unusual within Taba, but typologically common compared to many other Austronesian languages. It is worth noting that while the directional roots in Taba can have rough English translations, utterances containing them will often have senseless meanings if translated directly into English.