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I had a class in university on Australian Aboriginal languages with the excellent Alice Gaby, in which we were introduced to the kinship systems in these langua
by frogulis 4y ago
I had a class in university on Australian Aboriginal languages with the excellent Alice Gaby, in which we were introduced to the kinship systems in these languages.
Some of these systems are amazingly complex and systematic, like this chart of recursively marriageable groups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_kinship#/media/File:Nom-peau-mariage.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_kinship#...
If anyone's interested, this paper here covers the topics that were a big focus of her work and the semester: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283297492_Hyponymy_and_the_structure_of_Kuuk_Thaayorre_kinship_2016 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283297492_Hyponymy_...