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Kinship terms

Index of SIL publications on Kinship terms listed by country.

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General works

• LYNCH, John, author. 1996. "On the relative instability of *tina- ‘mother’ in the languages of eastern Oceania."
• MERRIFIELD, William R., author. 1983. "On the formal analysis of kinship terminologies."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Benin

• ROWE, Jennifer L., author. 1997. "Le système de parenté des Waaba."

Nigeria

• MCKINNEY, Carol V., author. 1983. "A linguistic shift in Kaje, Kagoro, and Katab kinship terminology."

Americas

Brazil

• DOOLEY, Robert A., author. 1979. "Componentes semânticos na terminologia de parentesco Guaraní."
• KOEHN, Sally S., author. 1975. "Apalaí kinship and social behavior."
• WEISS, Helga E., author. 1985. "Kayabí (Tupian) kinship terminology."

Canada

• WALKER, Richard; WILKINSON, David B., compilers. 1974. Central Carrier bilingual dictionary.

Colombia

• GOEHNER, Marie; MERRIFIELD, William R.; WEST, Birdie, authors. 1985. "Tucano (Tucanoan) kinship terminology."
• GRALOW, Frances L.; MERRIFIELD, William R., authors. 1985. "A preliminary note on Coreguaje kinship terminology."
• KONDO, Riena W.; MERRIFIELD, William R., authors. 1985. "Guahibo kinship terminology."
• SMITH, Richard D., author. 1976. "Notas sobre parentesco en barasano del sur y taiwano."  

Guatemala

• ELLIOTT, Raymond, author. 1977. "Nebaj Ixil unitary kin terms."
• ELLIOTT, Raymond, author. 1977. "Términos de parentesco unitarios de los ixiles de Nebaj."
• ELLIOTT, Raymond, author. 1978. "Términos de parentesco unitarios de los ixiles de Nebaj."

Mexico

• AULIE, Evelyn W.; AULIE, H. Wilbur, authors. 1953. "Términos de parentesco en chol."
• BROCKWAY, Earl, author. 1969. "Términos de parentesco del Nahuatl (Dialecto del Norte de Puebla)."
• GRIMES, Barbara F.; GRIMES, Joseph E., authors. 1961. "Notes on Huichol kinship terminology."
• HOLLENBACH, Barbara E.; HOLLENBACH, Bruce E., authors. 2000. Los términos de parentesco en el Mixteco de Magdalena Peñasco.  
• KIRK, Paul L., author. 1966. "Social vs. consanguineal distance as reflected by Mazatec kinship terminology."
• MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2000. "Why the Seri language is important and interesting."  
• MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1989. "Terminologia de parentesco seri."
• MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1993. Seri kinship terminology.
• MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1997. Seri dictionary: People and kinship terms.  
• MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1999. Seri kinship terminology.  

Peru

• BURTCH, Bryan; BURTCH, Shirley, authors. 1975. "Huitoto muruí: Bosquejo breve de la subsistencia y terminología muruí de parentesco."  
• THIESEN, Wesley, author. 1975. "Terminología bora de parentesco."  

Asia

India

• NAGARAJA, K. S., author. 1997. "Kinship terms in Konyak Naga."  

Indonesia

• BADUDU, Rabiana, author. 1990. "Kespesifikan kata sapaan persona kedua dalam sistem tutur sapa Bahasa Gorontalo."
• BUSENITZ, Robert L., author. 1993. "Notes on Balantak kinship terminology."
• GREEN, Ivor, author. 1986. "Dou kinship terms."
• MERRIFIELD, William R., author. 1983. "Comments on kinship notation."

Malaysia

• BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1984. "Banggi kinship terminology."
• MILLER, Carolyn P.; MILLER, John D., authors. 1988. "Kinship terminology in Coastal Kadazan."

Philippines

• ELKINS, Richard E., compiler. 1984. A sampling of Philippine kinship patterns.
• MERRIFIELD, William R., author. 1987. Review of: a sampling of Philippine kinship patterns, by Richard E. Elkins, compiler.

Thailand

• BISHOP, Nancy M., author. 1996. "Whos’s who in Kensiw? Terms of reference and address in Kensiw."  

Viet Nam

• FIPPINGER, Dorothy C., author. 1971. "Kinship terms of the Black Tai people."
• PREISIG, Elisabeth, author. 1982. Relations interpersonnelles dans la famille vietnamienne: Etude ethnolinguistique du système d’appellation interpersonnelle du dialecte de la région de Hanoi.
• THOMAS, David D., author. 1992. Review of: Discursive practices and linguistic meanings: The Vietnamese system of personal reference, by Hy V. Luong.

Pacific

Australia

• SOMMER, Bruce A.; SOMMER, Elaine A., authors. 1967. "Kunjen pronouns and kinship."

Papua New Guinea

• HEALEY, Alan, author. 1962. "Linguistic aspects of Telefomin kinship terminology."
• HENDERSON, James E., author. 1975. "Collecting genealogies."
• HOOLEY, Bruce A., author. 1978. "Number and time in Central Buang."  
• LOVING, Richard, author. 1973. "Awa kinship terminology and its use."
• LOVING, Richard, author. 1974. "Notes on Awa kinship terminology."
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1969. "Komba kinship terminology."
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1978. Review of: Lexical reconstruction: The case of the Proto-Athapaskan kinship system, by Isidore Dyen and David F. Aberle.
• SCOTT, Graham K., author. 1975. "Linguistic aspects of Fore kinship."  
• SHAW, R. Daniel, author. 1974. "Samo sibling terminology."