[Lingtyp] Kinship systems that distinguish age but not gender

[Gary Holton]

Tobelo (North Halmahera) is similar:

-riaka ‘older same-sex sibling’
-dodoto  ‘younger same-sex sibling’
-hiranga   ‘opposite-sex sibling’

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Dryer, Matthew <dryer at buffalo.edu> wrote:

> While Murdock (1968) discusses the interaction of gender of ego with
> sibling of same sex vs. sibling of opposite sex, he does not discuss the
> interaction of these with older vs. younger sibling. There are eight
> possible relationships by these three parameters.
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> All three of these parameters are relevant in Walman (a Papuan language in
> the Torricelli family), but relative age is neutralized for siblings of
> opposite sex.
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> Matthew Dryer
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> *From: *Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of
> Guillaume Segerer <guillaume.segerer at cnrs.fr>
> *Date: *Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 9:41 AM
> *To: *"lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org" <lingtyp at listserv.
> linguistlist.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Lingtyp] Kinship systems that distinguish age but not
> gender
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> Hi all
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> What Hedwig is looking for is common in West Africa. I can think of
> Manjaku, Balanta and Bijogo, but RefLex (www.reflex.cnrs.fr) also gives
> interesting results for some Bantu languages, among others. Many languages
> (like Joola, Baynunk) have a contrast between "same sex sibling" vs
> "opposite sex sibling", regardless of age. I have no example in mind of
> languages having a 4-term contrast combinig the two above features.
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> Guillaume Segerer
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> Le 19/07/2017 à 10:31, Hedvig Skirgård a écrit :
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> Dear LINGTYP,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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