KV(Ŋ)KV -Kinship Terms in the Australian Aboriginal Languages

First Part:Kaka 'Mother's Brother

Bibliographic Data

ID2641448
AuthorsAlain Matthey De L''Etang (corresponding author), Alain Matthey De L'Etang (corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume9
Issue2
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStructure and Dynamics eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1554-3374 • E-ISSN: 1554-3374
PublisherCalifornia Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5070/sd992032331
OpenAlexW2768926437
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited26

Here, I report the pervasive distribution in numerous Aboriginal language groups all over Australia, of kinship terms with similar phonetic shapes and meanings, such as kaka MB, FZH, EF. It is argued that this distribution is consistent with the antiquity of this term in the language families in which it is found. Further, its pervasive presence in non-Pama-Nyungan (non-PNy) as well as in Pama-Nyungan (PNy) languages, is consistent with inheritance from a higher taxonomic level, possibly Proto-Australian, and beyond, and even possibly from the proto-language spoken by the first modern men who colonized Sahul, while the grounded idea of a primordial Kariera-like at the start of higher nodes in the Australian language phylum is consistent with the claim that the Proto-Australian kinship system was Kariera-like

Biology · Brother · Genealogy · Geography · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Kinship · Linguistics · Sociology · Anthropology · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · History · Language and cultural evolution · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy

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