Linguistic Categories and Culture
Linguistic Categories and Culture
Linguistic Categories and Culture
Categories and
Culture
Native American and Australian Aboriginal
languages are often cited as examples which
roundly refute popular misconceptions about
primitive languages.
For instance:
Using the same word for both.
Maori kinship terminology distinguishes between
siblings in different ways from English.
tungane
IV. brother of a female
Njamal has distinct terms for younger vs
older siblings and younger cousins.
For Example:
Example:
‘All around the world indigenous people transmit,
through the words and expressions of their language, the
fruits of millennia of close observation of nature and
experimentation with its products’.
The shoe print on the playing field, but didn’t see him play’