[Tibeto-burman-linguistics] kinship terms for 'cousins'

[Yuan-Lin Yang]

Dear Tibeto-Burmanists:

I am currently working on Taunggyi (Northern) Pa'O, a Karenic language
mainly spoken in the Shan State, Myanmar. Through yesterday's field session
with my consultant, I learnt that their language does not have specific
kinship terms for 'cousins' or 'ego's father/mother's brother/sister's
child(ren)'. Instead, they just call them 'uncle/aunt's child/son/daughter'
(but they do distinguish uncles or aunts of different ages and sides). And
I have also tried to check whether such a phenomenon is prevalent in TB
languages with ChatGPT, yet it has only found that Burmese, Lahu, and
Lepcha seem to behave in the same way.

Thus, purely out of interest, I would like to know if similar phonomena is
also found in the languages you work on. And if your language(s) happen to
be other special cases, you are welcome to share as well.

Best,
Mickey,
MA student, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University.
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