Does anybody know of a natural language in which the kinship terms used for parents and children are governed not by the gender of the individual but whether or not the two people in the relationship are of the same gender?
This would mean that a son would call his father a but his mother b, a daughter would call her father b but her mother a, a father would call his son c but his daughter d and a mother would call her son d but her daughter c.
For the sake of clarity I have schematised this below:
- Child–parent relationship:
- son → father: a
- son → mother: b
- daughter → father: b
- daughter → mother: a
- Parent–child relationship
- father → son: c
- father → daughter: d
- mother → son: d
- mother → daughter: c
