Kinship Terminology - Relative Age and Identification of Alternating Generations

Relative Age and Identification of Alternating Generations

Tagalog borrows the relative age system of the Chinese kinship and follows the generation system of kinship. Philippine Kinship distinguishes between generation, age and in some cases gender.

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