| The kin, properly speaking is not a group, but rather a system of social relationships based primarily on the biological fact of generation’ (Gisbert 1978. p.32). In a tribal society, an individual or a group of individuals gain entrance into the relationship of the other members through the address of one’s own presumptive kinsmen. In every community, different linguistic terminologies are in use to express various kinship relationships. Through such terminologies, love, affection, closeness and other human feelings are expressed. Even from the childhood, the infants internalise the affinity and attitude towards its kinsmen and express later the preconceived feelings through the linguistic expressions which express the relationship of a kinsman. |
