![]() | This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: Common nouns like "mother" and "sister" should be in lowercase not capitals. (March 2020) |
Part of a series on the |
Anthropology of kinship |
---|
![]() |
Social anthropology Cultural anthropology |
![]() |
Part of a series on the |
Hindustani language |
---|
History |
Grammar |
Linguistic history |
The kinship terms of Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) differ from the English system in certain respects.[1] In the Hindustani system, kin terms are based on gender,[2] and the difference between some terms is the degree of respect.[3] Moreover, "In Hindi and Urdu kinship terms there is clear distinction between the blood relations and affinal relations."[4]
Southworth and Dawsanigo on in their discussion of theoretical properties of kinship systems to show that while the English kinship system differs from both the Hindi-Urdu system and the Tamil one, the latter two systems also differ from each other.
In this case, EGO can be of either sex (though in some kinship systems, such as that of Hindi-Urdu, the sex of EGO affects the choice of terms for certain relatives).
Kinship terms are also used for respect (e.g. 'older sister' for a woman one's own age or slightly older and the ubiquitous 'auntie' or 'uncle' in both Hindi/Urdu and English, especially but not exclusively used by children).