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Re: Senyecan kinship system

From:Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...>
Date:Thursday, October 14, 2004, 21:21
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:02:21 +0200, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-
conlang@...> wrote:

>The Taruven kinship-system isn't complete yet but so far: >
(snip)
> >the child of somebody who has the same great great great grandfather as >ego: kaìrfaìnntatcan (5 syllables btw, nn is syllabic in nnta) >"great great great grandfather's great great great great grandchild" >(might be a 'great' too much there :) ) >
For some reason, I'm having trouble following this part. (snip)
> >t.
The {'Yemls} kinship system is even less complete, but it has a couple of odd features. The only roots defined so far are: MOM - mother FOF - father A kinship word _must_ be followed by the "possessor". This can be a clitic pronoun, working just like the object of a verb. The inverse relationship is formed regularly with the prefix {C}. CMOM - the offspring of a mother CFOF - the offspring of a father Examples: NrM: MOM jOn. - Norma is John's mother. jOn: CMOM NrM. - John is Norma's child. FOF-u: WtQ? - Where's your father? The various forms can be combined for some additional relationships: {CMOM MOM jOn} - the offspring of John's mother (i.e. John and his same- mother siblings) {MOM CFOF jOn} - the mother of John's children (but not necessarily all of them. This is not intended to reflect on any actual persons named John who might belong to a non-'Yemls culture; it's just that "John" is easy to render in 'Yemls ... and aren't you glad I remembered the quotes). Jeff