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Hindi distinguishes between your father's younger brother (Chacha) and elder brothere (Tau). Grand children have different names depending on if they are from the daughter or son. I made my mom write down all the relationship names in Hindi, and there are some 34 of them https://yobabita.medium.com/family-relationship-names-in-hin...

P.S.: Original article is paywalled, couldn't read

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The same thing with Telugu - found this horribly confusing as a child. Link to Telugu: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~vemuri/classes/freshman/family.h...

One thing I always thought was interesting was the value placed in having names for marital ties - we treat relations through marriage with not much specific vocabulary in English, with -in-law being inserted for closer relations like brothers and sisters but not for cousin or uncle, for instance. I wonder if Old English had better terminology for such relations that have dropped in the modern version of the language.

Super interesting. Can someone create a page with all these mappings for all Indian languages (or at least Dravidian languages)?

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