Australian Aboriginal kinship terminology 1: Words for parents in Ngarla

In another series of videos, I look at the systems of social organisation found in Australia, but this is the first video about kinship terminology in Australian Aboriginal languages. You see, the Australian Aboriginal kinship systems have three parts, social organisation being one, and kinship terminology one of the other two. And while the systems of social organisation have been borrowed over huge distances in Australia, each tribe has usually come up with its own kinship terminology.

In this video we specifically look at words for ‘father’ and ‘mother’ (and other peoples’ fathers and mothers as well) in the Ngarla language, a conservative Pama-Nyungan language of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. And in this context some people are perhaps asking themselves ‘how complicated can it get’ with kinship terminology. Well, the fact of the matter is that it can get quite complicated (from a Western viewpoint, anyway), one reason being that names were not used for adults in traditional times, and kinship terms were used instead, and another being that everyone was a relative, whether a real or a classified one. #AboriginalAustralians, #AustralianAborigines, #AboriginalKinship, #AboriginalSocialOrganization, #AboriginalKinshipSystems, #KinshipTerm, #KinshipTerminology, #name, #reference, #address, #pronoun, #dual, #plural, #parents, #father, #mother, #mama, #papa, #farsan, #morsan, #brother, #sister, #crosscousin, #polite, #impolite, #dative, #possessive, #genitive, #classified, #PatrickMcConvell, #ngarla, #pamanyungan, #pilbara, #westernaustralia, #swedish,