[Lingtyp] Kinship systems that distinguish age but not gender

[David Gil]

Claire,

Thanks for posting this.  It's humbling to see how much stuff is already 
out there, if one knows where to look.  And nice to see that the 
Turkish/Minangkabau type that emerged from in the discussion is one of 
Murdock's 8 types (his type C: Algonkian), accounting for almost 10% of 
the languages in the sample.

Best,

David



On 19/07/2017 15:23, Claire Bowern wrote:
> 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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