Re: My coming out as a conlanger
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 5, 2002, 12:12 |
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At 23:44 2002-10-04 -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
>In addition, some societies had an
>indirect succession, where the king's sister's son inherited the
>position.
This is the case with the Sakya hierarch in Tibet. The hierach himself is
always a monk, so he has to be succeeded by a sibling's son. Usually a
brother's son AFAIK, but I don't know if a sister's son is unheard of.
/BP 8^)>
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