Sundanese Kinship Terminology in an Old Sundanese Manuscript: Saṅhyaṅ Siksakanda Ṅ Karĕsian (1518 AD)

This article is attempted to reconstruct Sundanese kinship terminology from an Old Sundanese manuscript: Saṅhyaṅ Sikakanda ṅ Karĕsian (The Godly Guidelines to the Righteousness, 1518 AD). In this manuscript, there are 26 kin term of references for 23 kin categories. Basically, Old Sundanese k...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mulyanto, Dede -
Other Authors: -
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Universitas Negeri Semarang 2019
Subjects:
kinship studies
philology
ancient history
kinship terminology
Old Sundanese
lineality
Saṅhyaṅ Sikakanda ṅ Karĕsian
eskimo*
Online Access:https://journal.unnes.ac.id/nju/index.php/komunitas/article/view/19089
https://doi.org/10.15294/komunitas.v11i2.19089
Description
Summary:This article is attempted to reconstruct Sundanese kinship terminology from an Old Sundanese manuscript: Saṅhyaṅ Sikakanda ṅ Karĕsian (The Godly Guidelines to the Righteousness, 1518 AD). In this manuscript, there are 26 kin term of references for 23 kin categories. Basically, Old Sundanese kinship terminology have strong characteristics toward lineal-Eskimo type in which terms of reference for members of nuclear family more descriptive than for other relatives outside it. Balance term distributions for collateral relatives also important in this type. Comparing with modern Sundanese, there are no structural change in Sundanese kinship terminology.

Similar Items