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KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY IN LEPCHA

Author(s) -

Satarupa Dattamajumdar

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

the buckingham journal of language and linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1757-9821

DOI - 10.5750/bjll.v3i0.29

Subject(s) - kinship , terminology , linguistics , polarity (international relations) , genealogy , sociology , history , anthropology , philosophy , biology , genetics , cell

Lepcha being a language of the Tibeto Burman language family exhibit structural traits of the of the kinship terminological system realised in the Indian subcontinent. Kinship terminology has been analysed by different scholars from different points of view like, generation, sex, affinity, collaterality, relative age, polarity, affinity, etc. The present paper examines the Lepcha kinship terminology keeping the existing structural criteria in view along with culture and language specific aspects into consideration.

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