[RNLD] Word request

[Picus Ding]

Under the one-child policy in mainland China, a new compound shidu jiating
失独家庭 has come into being to refer to a family who have lost their only
child (and the couple can't have another one).

The term is created due to the need to describe a new societal phenomenon
in mainland China.
Picus
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Rozenn Milin <rozenn.milin at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> A friend of mine, in France, lost one of his children a few years ago.
>
> He then noticed that in most languages we know, there are words to name a
> person who lost their wife or husband (widow in English), and a child who
> lost his parents (orphan), but there is no word to name a person who lost
> their child...
>
> This appeared unfortunate to him and he proceeded to try to convince the
> French Academy to create such a word. The Academy is OK with the idea, but
> they first asked him whether such a word exists in other languages.
>
> So I thought I would send an email to the RNLD list, since it reaches a
> bunch of linguists who have studied a whole lot of languages... If any of
> you happens to have heard of such a word in any language, would you please
> get back to me ? And if you haven't, please, send the word out !
>
> Thanks !
>
> Rozenn
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/resource-network-linguistic-diversity/attachments/20130613/478a0a3f/attachment.html>