KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY IN SANSKRIT, PĀLI, NEPALI, PUNJĀBI AND HINDI
SANSKRİT, PĀLİ, NEPALCE, PENCAPÇA VE HİNTÇEDE AKRABALIK TERMİNOLOJİSİ

Author : Nuray ÖZENÇ
Number of pages : 541-561

Abstract

The Indian sub-continent is a geography that is rich in terms of ethnic identities, languages, religions and castes. Sources of variety within this heterogeneous texture can be traced through various channels and kinship terms are just of these channels. Kinship is a system within the society where an individual lives with which he or she relates themselves to other members of the society. This social relationship or bond, which is established through genetics or marriage, is a natural point of meeting for the disciplines of anthropology and linguistics. The Indian sub-continent, which encompasses five countries including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan (Eastern Himalayas) and Sri Lanka via the Strait of Palk, houses innumerable systems of kinship. Four major caste groups are divided into subgroups at more than level, thus yielding about 2000 ethnic groups and 500 languages and dialects. 8 great religions and philosophies within this diversity renders the terminology further complicated. This present study aims to compare and contrast Drāvidianand in particularTamil Brahman terms, Kashmiri Brahman terms, southernmost South Merchant caste of Nagarattar (Nāttukūttai) and northern Orissa Aghria village terms, which are geographically the remotest from one another, Sanskrit, Pāli, Nepalī, Hindi and Punjabi kinship terms.

Keywords

Sanskrit, Pāli, Nepalī, Hindī, Punjābī, Kinship Terms

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