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And there are some languages that have one word for children of mother's sisters and father's brothers and another for children of mother's brothers and father's sisters. Generally called parallel cousins and cross cousins in anthropological writings.



One of my hindi text book has the following listed:
Aunt: (father's sister, father's older brother's wife, father's younger brother's wife, mother's brother's wife, mother's sister)

Brother-in-law: (husband's older brother, husband's sister's husband, husband's younger brother, wife's brother, wife's sister's husband)

granddaughter: (daughter's daughter, son's daughter)
grandfather: (mother's father, father's father)
grandmother: (mother's mother, mother's father)
grandson: (daughter's son, son's son)
nephew: (brother's son, sister's son)
niece: (sister's daughter, brother's daughter)
sister-in-law:(brother's wife, husband's sister, wife's sister)
uncle:(father's older brother, father's sister's husband, father's younger brother, mother's brother, mother's brother's husband)

Of them all, the most confusing for me is maamaa - mother's brother.

noho ora mai
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