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Figure 4. Dravidian Kin-Term Systems

Core structure used in over 25 Dravidian cultures, can be

reconstructed for proto-Dravidian, c. 3000 BC or older.

The system is

exhaustive: all members of the same caste are kinsmen

associated with an obligatorymarriage rule

Example: Tamil (KavuNTar caste, Kongu NaTu)

Generation CROSS PARALLEL

male female male female

+2 appici ammayi appaaru appattaa

+1 maamaa attai appaa ammaa

older maittunan nankayaa aNNan akkaa

0

younger maittunan koRuntiyaar tampi tankacci

-1 marumakan marumakaL makan makaL

-2 peeran peetti peeran peetti

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Figure 6: Dravidian Kinterms: Cross/Parallel assignment

in junior generations and different perspectives on the

system

Rules for Cross/Parallel assignment in egos generation and

below

egos generation and below: marriage joins persons of

oppositecategory (otherwise incest!)

brothers and sisters are ofsamecategory

For a male ego

For a female e o

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Figure 9: Experimental techniques for testing between

absolute and relative coding in memory and reasoning

red to North red to left

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Figure 2 - The predicted type of stage 2

(three-term) color Term systems.

Perceptual Foci

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Figure 3: Distribution of color terms in YlDnye (Rossel Island)

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Figure 2 - The predicted type of stage 2 (three-term) col

systems.

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