> The Senyecan kinship system is pretty simple. If anyone can discern
> which of the 6 it is, I'd appreciate knowing it.
Won't know until you show us vocabulary for cousins ...
> First of all, it doesn't matter whether the ego is male or female.
>
> Previous generations:
> áman - mother
> ápan - father
> amáman - maternal grandmother
> amápan - maternal grandfather
> apáman - paternal grandmother
> apápan - paternal grandfather
> dzèèramúni - grandmothers, both of them (lit. "old mothers")
> dzèèrapúni - grandfathers, etc.
> tiràneráman - great-grandmother (lit. "3rd ancestor mother");
> the ego
> is the 0 generation.
> tirànerápan - great-grandfather, etc.
> cwèturàneráman - great-great-grandmother, etc. These terms
> don't
> distinguish matri- & patrilineal lines. If you want to go farther
> back, draw a diagram :-). Incidentally, this word shows the rhythmic
> placement of the primary accent & the secondary accents in compound
> words.
>
> Same generation:
> váárun - brother
> swésrun - sister
> mhédhathun - spouse. Unless biologically determined, all words
> denoting animate beings are epicene. To specify gender, the prefixes
> oes- & ii- indicate male & female respectively.
> swecúrun - spouse's brother
> yénun - spouse's brother's wife
> dzóólun - spouse's sister
> swoínun - spouse's sister's husband
>
> Next generations:
> súnun - son
> dhúghun - daughter
> dzéntun - son's wife
> súnsun - daughter's husband
> dhughsúnun - daughter's son, etc.
> néftun - grandchild
> tirnéftun - great-grandchild, etc.
>
> In-laws are named by prefixing swel- to the above words, e.g.,
> sweláman, mother-in-law.
>
> P.S. I checked out this link:
>
>>
http://www.umanitoba.ca/anthropology/tutor/kinterms/termsys.html
>
> All I could see were a bunch of pretty colored geometric figures.
> When will webmasters learn that a black font on a brown background
> can't be read? I'm 63, but cataract surgery has restored me to
> 20/20, but I still couldn't read the words.
>
>