[Lingtyp] Kinship systems that distinguish age but not gender

[Peter Puxon]

Dear Hedvig,

It seems perhaps that Iban spoken in Malaysian Borneo makes this
distinction:

aka  = 'elder brother / sister'
adi = 'younger brother / sister'

Iban traditionally is 'utrolocal' meaning that residence on marriage is
equally likely to be with the husband / bride's family.

Regards,

Peter Puxon
SOAS

On 19 July 2017 at 09:31, Hedvig Skirgård <hedvig.skirgard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> *****
>
> *Tōfā soifua,*
>
> *Hedvig Skirgård*
>
>
> PhD Candidate
> The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity
>
> ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
>
> School of Culture, History and Language
> College of Asia and the Pacific
>
> Rm 4203, H.C. Coombs Building (#9)
> The Australian National University
>
> Acton ACT 2601
>
> Australia
>
> Co-chair of Public Relations
>
> Board of the International Olympiad of Linguistics
>
> www.ioling.org
>
> Blogger at Humans Who Read Grammars
> http://humans-who-read-grammars.blogspot.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Lingtyp mailing list
> Lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lingtyp/attachments/20170725/3b9d4459/attachment.htm>