| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 11, 2006, 10:31 |
On 12/9/06, li_sasxsek@nutter.net <li_sasxsek@...> wrote:> I was just wondering about different ways to refer to relatives in > different languages (artificial or natural). There seems to be a lot of > different ways to do it in natural languages.Apparently, there are six main systems of how to differentiate. See, for example: * http://www.umanitoba.ca/anthropology/tutor/kinterms/termsys.html * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship_and_descent * * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_kinship * * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_kinship * * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois_kinship * * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow_kinship * * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_kinship * * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_kinship -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>