LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter
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#2Chinese kinship labels for the win
https://blog.tutorabcchinese.com/chinese-learning-tips/famil...
Re: LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter
#3Chinese kinship labels for the win https://blog.tutorabcchinese.com/chinese-learning-tips/famil...
That is interesting. In many English speaking cultures children will informally refear to their mother's parents and father's parents by different names even if formally they are both "grandmother", "grandfather" or "grandparent". I like that in China they formalised the names.
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#4Chinese kinship labels for the win https://blog.tutorabcchinese.com/chinese-learning-tips/famil...
That is interesting. In many English speaking cultures children will informally refear to their mother's parents and father's parents by different names even if formally they are both "grandmother", "grandfather" or "grandparent". I like that in China they formalised the names.
Scandinavian languages have the same. »Mormor« (lit. mum mum) means maternal grandmother, while »farmor« (lit. dad mum) means paternal grandmother. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to continue beyond that (so no »mormormor«).
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#5Chinese kinship labels for the win https://blog.tutorabcchinese.com/chinese-learning-tips/famil...
That is interesting. In many English speaking cultures children will informally refear to their mother's parents and father's parents by different names even if formally they are both "grandmother", "grandfather" or "grandparent". I like that in China they formalised the names.
Related question (not really!) - two dads or moms - who should be called what?
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is interesting. In many English speaking cultures children will informally refear to their mother's parents and father's parents by different names even if formally they are both "grandmother", "grandfather" or "grandparent". I like that in China they formalised the names.
Related question (not really!) - two dads or moms - who should be called what?
Not an issue: You already have two grandfathers and two grandmothers, how do you call them?
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#7Chinese kinship labels for the win https://blog.tutorabcchinese.com/chinese-learning-tips/famil...
AIUI Korean and Farsi (among many others, I'm sure!) also have lots of very specific words for familial relationships.
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#8Why though? Where does this actually get used?
This seems to represent two different relationships. The mother’s sibling could be a brother. For the father a sister is specified. What about the father’s brother’s younger daughter?
The description says younger daughter in both cases but the name doesn’t specify. So what’s the class for the older daughter of the mother’s sibling or the father’s sister?
And if age is relevant what about the father’s older sister’s younger daughter, etc.