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Not Quite a Family Reunion

No, not another meeting of conlangers. And not making my family learn my conlang either. Rather, the last episode of the Conlangery Podcast dealt with the topic of Kinship Terms and how different languages and cultures handle them. This made me rethink what I had already come up with (PDF warning) two years ago: Distinguishing all those cousins and in-laws seemed overkill to me on a much later second thought. I thus went into the opposite direction and got rid of a lot of distinctions… Maybe too many? See for yourself.