tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 18 08:44:52 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: puqnI'be' (noun)
QeS la':
>I wrote a short article about the implications of the Klingon kinship
>system in the middle of this year for submission to HolQeD. If anyone
>is interested, I can send them a copy.
To whet your appetites, QeS wrote back on 7/07/05:
For those who are interested in that sort of thing, the Klingon
system conforms closest to the type that anthropologists call
the Sudanese system. This system assigns a distinct kinship term
to every relative, particularly in one's own generation and the
generation above. (For comparison, some other systems combine
various types of relatives into one term: English uses the term
"cousin" for Klingon {tey'loD}, {tey'be'}, {lorloD}, {lorbe'},
{vIn} and {yur}; Hawaiian doesn't distinguish between "father"
and "uncle".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons