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Sesotho — the language of the Basotho ethnic group of South Africa and Lesotho — has a complex system of kinship terms which may be classified to fall under the Iroquois kinship pattern. The complex terminology rules are necessitated in part by the traditional promotion of certain forms of cousin marriage among the Bantu peoples of sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the terms used have common reconstructed Proto-Bantu roots. Due to the importance of family, the terms are limited to relatives through birth (consanguinity) and marriage (affinity). Adoption — the modern legal variety or the older common-law/traditional variety — is no different from birth. Marriage is not distinguished from birth, except for the names of sons- and daughters-in-law, and the terminology treats relatives through marriage to be no different from relatives through birth. The adoption of an Iroquois kinship system is necessitate by the fact that traditionally large families lived together in compounds, and married children rarely lived far from their parents. Thus, the nuclear family is far larger and comprises far more categories than the father-mother-children pattern which is common in modern European culture. ==Generations== Iroquois systems make the most terminology distinctions in the generation of the "ego" (oneself) — ones siblings and cousins — and this generation's parents (mother/father and aunts/uncles) and immediate offspring (children and nephews/nieces). These are the generations directly involved in cousin marriage, and the seemingly complicated terminology shows a certain symmetry when one considers the difference between cross cousins and parallel cousins. Above these three strata, all relatives are grandparents, and below all strata are grandchildren — even in the face of a lack of direct ancestry or descent. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sesotho kinship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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