Wistanian: Difference between revisions

The [[Wistanian/Lexicon|Wistanian Lexicon]] currently stands at 600 words as of October 2018, with a goal of accomplishing 2,500 words by the end of the year. A minimum of 10 words are actively added to the lexicon almost every day.  

[[File:WistanianFamily.png|thumb|right|A typical Wistanian family]]

Wistanian kinship is a modified version of the [[w: Hawaiian_kinship|Hawaiian system]] common in most Malayo-Polynesian languages. In this system, siblings and first cousins share terms with only a gender and age distinction. Mothers are usually given a term of endearment by their children (usually '''mu'''), but a child's aunts will also be called "mother" and the father and uncles will share terms as well. Most of Wistanian culture is [[w: Ambilineality|ambilineal]] and [[w: Matrifocal_family|matrifocal]], so that children live and associate closest to their mother and her side of the family. For this reason, a child's mother's brother will often be just as much of a father figure as the child's biological father, who may or may not be involved in the family.  

The Bwolotil people are more [[w: Nuclear_family|nuclear]], consisting of only a mother, father, and one or two children. They have their own kinship terms from their language. Some Katapu people share the typical family structure and kinship terms. However, most family structures are [[W: Extended_family|extended]] so that families live amongst the mother's extended family, and fathers are usually present in the home. Most of their kinship terms also come from the Katapu language, but some Wistanian terms are borrowed as well.

| style="text-align: center; font-style:italic; background-color:#993300; color:#ffffff;" | zuvil<br> jaaru

| style="text-align: center; font-style:italic; background-color:#9b9b9b;" | au<br> garaji

| style="text-align: center; font-style:italic; background-color:#fe0000;" | raul<br> nidda <br> hagg

| style="text-align: center; font-style:italic; background-color:#ffff00;" | luz<br> aubra

| style="text-align: center; font-style:italic; background-color:#33ff33;" | jan<br> bazu

| style="text-align: center; font-style:italic; background-color:#0033ff;" | zaz<br> iyad