KINSHIP TERMS OF DALIT CASTE MAYILADUTHURAI DISTRICT IN TAMIL NADU
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7492/e2kg1t55Abstract
Linguistics and anthropology deal with language and culture in different aspects of their fields. Their lexical structure of kinship vocabulary depends on the age, sex, clans, linguistic enculturation of the child or acculturation of others. (i.e. education, economic upliftment, status of jobs), etc. Ethnolinguistic studies focus on the observation of living languages and their local variations. These variations suggest that a language does not ordinarily divide clearly at the given moment, but gradually develops differences among its region as the result of innovations that appear in one region and spread in a wave-like fashion to the neighbouring ones, attaining sometimes wider and sometimes narrower extensions.
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