[Xmca-l] Re: kinship

[peter jones]

Could you start with the main root languages? Back to their origins? Europe Asia Africa Americas... the creation of constructed languages e.g. Unish may also provide insights? Need to incorporate 'mother' ...

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  On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 at 21:24, Greg Thompson<greg.a.thompson@gmail.com> wrote:   Martin,
Well that is a difficult question to answer without knowing what you mean
by "family"?
What in the world do you mean by "family"?
-greg

On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Martin Packer <mpacker@cantab.net> wrote:

> I am struggling with the way ‘family’ and ‘kinship’ have been defined, or
> not defined, in psychology and anthropology. One question that has occurred
> to me is whether a word equivalent to ‘family’ exists in every language.
> When I Google this, Google responds ‘Ask Siri’…  :(
>
> Anyone have an idea?
>
> Martin
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