<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270798"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270799">Dear linguistic typologists,<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270800"></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270801"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270802"> <o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270803"></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270804"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270805">I am a French demographer trying to explain why
certain present-day populations, especially but not only from Mauritania to
Pakistan, marry cousins more often than other populations (</span><a href="http://consang.net/index.php/Global_prevalence" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270806"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#196AD4;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270807">http://consang.net/index.php/ Global_prevalence</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270808">). To do that I would like to know when cousin
marriage started becoming more (or less) frequent in human populations.
However, given the dearth of ancient demographic data, the best (although
rough) indicator of cousin marriage may be whether a people’s language has
different terms for different types of cousins (like in Latin where <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270809">patruelis</i> = the child of father’s
brother, <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270810">amitinus/a</i> = the child of father’s
sister, <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270811">matruelis</i> = the child of mother’s
brother and <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270812">consobrinus</i> = the child
of mother’s sister) rather than having only one term (like in English: <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270813">cousin</i>).<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270814"></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270815"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270816"><o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270817"> </o:p></span></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270818"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270819">As specialists of linguistic typology, would you know
if and how I could find relatively systematic information or a database on
whether currently spoken or extinct languages or reconstructed proto-languages
have different terms for different types of cousins or just one term for all
cousins?<o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270820"></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270821"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270822"> <o:p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270823"></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_266998" dir="ltr">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270824">Thanks in advance for your help,
which would be very precious to me, and best wishes for your research and other
activities,</span><br></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_266998" dir="ltr"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_267016"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_270870">Jean-François Mignot</span></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_267016"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://cnrs.academia.edu/JeanFrancoisMignot" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_266934" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Web page</a></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_267016"><br></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500965810641_267016"><br></div></div></body></html>