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| | --- Reply above this line to comment on this post --- Why do some languages have more terms for different relatives, such as words for maternal versus paternal grandparents, while others have fewer? Embedded media -- click here to see it. “A kinship system with one word referring to all relatives in a family tree would be very simple but not terribly useful for picking out specific individuals,” says Kemp, assistant professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: Google translate/worldle.net | | | |
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