[Lingtyp] Kinship systems that distinguish age but not gender

[Frank Seifart]

Another paper reporting results consistent with Murdoch (1968) is 
Nerlove and Romney (1967): About 10% of languages (21 of their 245) make 
relative age but no sex distinctions in terms for sibling.

Best,

Frank

Nerlove, Sara & A. Kimball Romney. 1967. Sibling Terminology and 
Cross‐Sex Behavior. /American Anthropologist/ 69(2). 179–187. 
doi:10.1525/aa.1967.69.2.02a00050.
>
> 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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>>>
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