>From: Roger Mills <[log in to unmask]>
>
>This sounds familiar; I know some Indonesian langs. have various terms for
>same-sex and opposite-sex _siblings_ as well as older/younger, but offhand,
>your system sounds different. Kinship systems confuse me....:-(((
>
>Check out:
>http://www.umanitoba.ca/anthropology/tutor/kinterms/termsys.html

Been there, but thanks.

Actually, I went back and took another look, and I noticed they had a
language up where fathers and mothers use different terms for their
children.  It's not the same system, but it's encouraging.

> > The system I'm thinking of would be something like this:
> > A:  son, but only of a female ego (a man cannot have a B)
> > B:  daughter, but only of a female (a man cannot have a B)
>
>Do you possibly mean "brother/sister" or "sibling" not son/daughter???

No.  I haven't decided how siblings work yet.  The aspect I was wondering
about (with respect to naturalism) was the differentiation by sex of ego of
offspring terms.

I suppose given this a similar differentiation of siblings would make sense.

> > C:  son of a male ego, son of the ego's sister
> > D:  daughter of a male ego, daughter of the ego's sister
> > E:  son or daughter of the ego's brother or the ego's in-laws
>
>Those sound rather odd to me...But hey, it's a conworld, no?!!

I want it odd, but I don't want it impossible.  Something you might find in
some little out of the way hunter-gatherer community on Earth, or something
that could eventually evolve from more common modern languages, given a few
millenia.

I don't really have a conworld for this, though.  Not yet.

> > Similarly:
> > F:  mother
> > G:  father, mother's brother, (also probably step-father)
> > H:  mother's sister, (also probably step-mother)
> > I:  father's brother, mother's sister's husband
> > J:  father's sister, father's brother's husband
>
>J:...FaBroHus.....eh?? 'tain't legal, except in Ontario, Vermont, Mass. and
>Holland!!!! But aside from that (typo?), these sound more common.

Heh.  Indeed.  Although, were the consociety down with that (and I don't
know that they aren't) that could well be the term for it.  Either that or
I.

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