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## Family Words
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Family words are a huge part of a language because it encodes a lot about the
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culture behind that language. L'ewa isn't really intended to have much of a
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culture behind it, but the one place I want to take a cultural stance is here.
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The major kinship word is kirta, or "is an infinite slice of an even greater
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infinite". This is one of the few literal words in L'ewa that is defined using a
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metaphor, as there is really no good analog for this in English.
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2020-05-26 02:10:05 +00:00
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L'ewa has a fairly custom kinship system. Here is a high level of conversion
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between English and L'ewa:
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| English | L'ewa term | L'ewa word |
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|-------------------------|-------------|------------|
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| brother/sister | sibling | xinga |
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| mother/father | parent | pa'ma |
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| grandfather/grandmother | grandparent | gra'u |
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| aunt/uncle | parent | pa'ma |
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| cousin | sibling | xinga |
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These terms can also be applied to anyone, not just your immediate genetic
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family.
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