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> This seems like such a distant yet specific relationship type I don't know much about it (never stepped foot outside EU/NA) but apparently some Asian countri
by infimum 5y ago
> This seems like such a distant yet specific relationship type
I don't know much about it (never stepped foot outside EU/NA) but apparently some Asian countries have a pretty intricate system of kinship terms. For example Diagram IV in [1] shows different (Mandarin?) Chinese terms for what we would just call a "cousin" in English.
I also found the video by NativLang [2] on the topic pretty interesting.
[1] https://ac-journal.org/journal/vol3/Iss3/spec1/huang_jia.html https://ac-journal.org/journal/vol3/Iss3/spec1/huang_jia.htm...
[2] https://youtu.be/YOi2c2d3_Lk https://youtu.be/YOi2c2d3_Lk
- mtlynch 5y agoInformative! Thank you!