Savaxay and the language of kinship in Batanic communities
Based on kinship terminologies collected for Batanic languages, this study reconstructs the Proto-Batanic kinship system and traces its transformations in present-day daughter communities. Since speakers of Batanic languages have maintained close contact among each other, the groups exhibit signific...
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ftuphilidiliman:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/6031 2023-05-15T16:07:05+02:00 Savaxay and the language of kinship in Batanic communities Gallego, Ma. Kristina S. 2017-12-20 application/pdf https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/socialsciencediliman/article/view/6031 eng eng Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/socialsciencediliman/article/view/6031/5377 https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/socialsciencediliman/article/view/6031 Copyright (c) 2018 Social Science Diliman Social Science Diliman; Vol 13, No 2 (2017) 2012-0796 1655-1524 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2017 ftuphilidiliman 2022-05-28T18:57:02Z Based on kinship terminologies collected for Batanic languages, this study reconstructs the Proto-Batanic kinship system and traces its transformations in present-day daughter communities. Since speakers of Batanic languages have maintained close contact among each other, the groups exhibit significant similarities not only in linguistic structure but also in certain cultural aspects such as kinship. All Batanic communities follow a lineal type of kinship(also known as Eskimo type), which is a retention of the ancestral Batanic kinship system. This is a departure from the generation type (also known as Hawaiian type) reconstructed for Proto-Philippines and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian. This development is analyzed as a reflection of changes in the behavior of the speakers, particularly in terms of rule of residence. Moreover,the physical house is seen as a reproduction of kinship relations in Batanic communities,where it serves as the primary locus of activities, rituals, and traditions that relate to kinship. Despite significant transformations in the kinship system of Batanic communities since their descent from Proto-Philippines, cultural features, particularly the value structure of Filipino communities, persist to this day.KEYWORDS: kinship, Batanes, ethnolinguistics, historical linguistics, language, culture Article in Journal/Newspaper eskimo* U.P. Diliman Journals Online (University of the Philippines) |
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Based on kinship terminologies collected for Batanic languages, this study reconstructs the Proto-Batanic kinship system and traces its transformations in present-day daughter communities. Since speakers of Batanic languages have maintained close contact among each other, the groups exhibit significant similarities not only in linguistic structure but also in certain cultural aspects such as kinship. All Batanic communities follow a lineal type of kinship(also known as Eskimo type), which is a retention of the ancestral Batanic kinship system. This is a departure from the generation type (also known as Hawaiian type) reconstructed for Proto-Philippines and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian. This development is analyzed as a reflection of changes in the behavior of the speakers, particularly in terms of rule of residence. Moreover,the physical house is seen as a reproduction of kinship relations in Batanic communities,where it serves as the primary locus of activities, rituals, and traditions that relate to kinship. Despite significant transformations in the kinship system of Batanic communities since their descent from Proto-Philippines, cultural features, particularly the value structure of Filipino communities, persist to this day.KEYWORDS: kinship, Batanes, ethnolinguistics, historical linguistics, language, culture |
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