| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 1:09 |
In a message dated 11/30/2004 3:32:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM writes:>It's probably true that all kinship systems have distinct terms for >father, mother, son, daughter, brother, and sister,I seem to recall that there are some languages that have words for "same-sex sibling" and "opposite-sex sibling" instead of "brother" and "sister." Doug
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