Re: Family business

The only really interesting thing Teonaht does with family relations is have
different words for father, mother, sister, and brother, distinguishing
whether they are YOUR kin or someone else's kin.

Sally
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teotax.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Horswood" <geoffhorswood@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 4:09 AM
Subject: Family business


> I'm trying to generate some vocabulary for Xinkutlan around the concepts
> of
> family and relations.
>
> I was thinking about some of the different ways Kazakh and some of the
> other languages I know bits of classify different relatives, and I started
> wondering.
>
> Do your conlangs have any "interesting" ways of classifying family
> relationships?  What distinctions are made/not made?
> Eg are there separate words for elder and younger siblings?  Different
> terms depending on birth order?  How far "out" does "brother" extend?
> (Two
> common parents, one common parent, uncles, friends, people from your
> village...)
> How many generations back and forward have specific titles (ie mother,
> grandmother, great-grandmother etc)?  Do the ancestral ones vary depending
> on which side of the family?
> How do you refer to in-laws?  Do husbands and wives use different words
> for
> family members?
> What does your language's conculture consider to constitute "a family"?
> Nuclear or extended- and how far extended?
>