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Re: [katanda] LS 25.4: kin of same/opposite sex

• From: Rick Morneau <ram@hidden.email>
• Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 06:48:04 -0800 (PST)
• Subject: Re: [katanda] LS 25.4: kin of same/opposite sex
• To: katanda@yahoogroups.com

MorphemeAddict@hidden.email wrote:
>
> LS 25.4 gives morphemes for sibling of same or opposite sex, but what about 
> parent or child of same or opposite sex?  
> 

I don't know of any natural languages that make these distinctions.  If
you know of any, please let me know.

Since Latenkwa is intended as a machine translation interlingua, there's
no need to implement a distinction if it does not occur in a reasonable
number of natural languages.


Regards,

Rick Morneau
http://www.eskimo.com/~ram

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