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<div>Lao has qaaj4 older brother, qùaj4 older sister and nòòng4 younger sibling.</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">This system has a neat affordance. When talking to a child whose mother is pregnant, one often wants to refer to the unborn child, the soon-to-arrive younger sibling. The word nòòng4 allows you to leave the sex unspecified, and
avoid a disjunction (brother or sister) as is needed in English. This issue does not arise when talking to children about their older siblings because of course the sex is known. This could contribute to a bias towards the typological prediction.</div>
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On 19 Jul 2017, at 20:02, Rik DB <<a href="mailto:rdbusser@gmail.com">rdbusser@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p>Dear Hedvig,</p>
<p>In case you need another one: Bunun (Austronesian) has tuqas 'older sibling' and nauba 'younger sibling'.
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<p>Am I wrong to assume that this is quite common in Western Austronesian?</p>
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<div>Does anyone know of a language that has a distinction in the kinship system for age of referent (younger/older) without also having a distinction for gender of referent? For example, a language that marks siblings as being younger or older to ego without
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<div>The hypothesis is that this doesn't happen/is very rare. We'd like to know if you've come across any examples of this.</div>
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<div>I'm asking for my friend Alex (cc:ed) who is not on the list. Please direct any responses or comments to her.</div>
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