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Re: OT: Language & clans? Re: OT: Ukraine

From:Marshall and Endemann <vaiaata@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 3:41
on 1/12/04 2:09 PM, Doug Dee at AmateurLinguist@AOL.COM wrote:

> 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 >
Yes, Samoan's one of those - well, it conforms in the first instance. Man's brother - uso Woman's sister - uso Man's sister - tuafafine Woman's brother - tuagane etc Chris -- Christopher Marshall vaiaata@ihug.co.nz http://www.vaiaata.com