Re: kinship terms (was Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin_

--- Yoon Ha Lee froge sionk:
>
> ObConlang: Are there particular (a)symmetries in y'all's conlangs'
> kinship
> terms?  I haven't actually *devised* them, but I suspect that
> Czevraqis
> has more for the mother's side of the family as the speakers
> generally
> reckon descent matrilineally.
so far narethanaal doesn't have many kinship terms... just the ones i
use most often (parents and sister)... 'sister'=shalash and
'parents'=eziona... when referring to a singular parent it's just
ezion... no specific word distinguishing mother or father...
similarly when i come up with a word for aunt/uncle it will be one
word to encompass both genders... i don't even want to worry about
all the twice removed junk at this point... i don't use it often
enough to care... my family is pretty liberal with the labeling of
distant family members... most adult female relations are aunts
(including some of my mom's very good friends who are not related)
and same goes for adult male relations/husbands of my mother's
friends...

...nicole
"I want to know who I am. And I'd rather die trying to find out than
live not knowing."--Jarod, 'the pretender'


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