Kinship terminology in SLs

Joseph Pietro Riolo josephpietrojeungriolo at gmail.com
Sat Dec 6 16:14:58 UTC 2008


On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> I am out of practice and not at all sure of this, but I recall at least some
> signers distinguishing male and female initialized 'Cousin' in this way, which
> spoken/written French does (and with the same letter) but not English.

Same thing for nephew and niece, using the handshape
for letter "n".

Joseph Pietro Riolo
josephpietrojeungriolo at gmail.com
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