[Lingtyp] Kinship systems that distinguish age but not gender

[Claire Bowern]

The classic paper for this is Murdock (1968) 'patterns of sibling
terminology: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3772805?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Here is a link to a handout and poster from 2014 on sibling patterns
in Australian (Pama-Nyungan) languages:
https://zenodo.org/record/832244
Claire


On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Isabelle Bril <ibril at vjf.cnrs.fr> wrote:
> Yuanga (New Caledonia) has kazi for younger brother or sister and khoe for
> elder brother or sister.
>
> Isabelle
>
>
> Le 19/07/2017 à 10:31, Hedvig Skirgård a écrit :
>
> Dear LINGTYP,
>
> 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 reference to being sister or brother.
>
> 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.
>
> I'm asking for my friend Alex (cc:ed) who is not on the list. Please direct
> any responses or comments to her.
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