Numerical variation in kinship terms

<p>Variations in the <a href="/facts/Number/auQSAE2m">number</a> of <a href="/facts/Lexemes/CtHGorv4">lexical categories</a> across the <a href="/facts/Language/IRcTok2q">languages</a> is a notable idea in <a href="/facts/Cultural_anthropology/6WK5EDeu">cultural anthropology</a>. A former study on "<a href="/facts/Color_terms/GUGLVf53">color terms</a>" explores such variations. Brent Berlin and Paul Kay (1969) argued that these qualitative and quantitative differences can be organized into a <a href="/facts/Basic_Color_Terms%3a_Their_Universality_and_Evolution/5YaRcMbG">coherent hierarchy</a>.
As far as <a href="/facts/Kinship/grXkJ2u7">kinship</a> terms are concerned, the variation is not found as an hierarchical organization, but as a result of conditions or constraints. That is to say, the number of kinship terms varies across the <a href="/facts/Language/IRcTok2q">languages</a> because of <a href="/facts/Sociocultural_system/0mxgushY">sociocultural</a> conditions or constraints on the <a href="/facts/Biology/1M1ee3pB">biological</a> traits.
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Numerical variation in kinship terms