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104:. Avoidance relations differ from tribe to tribe in terms of strictness and to whom they apply. Typically, there is an avoidance relationship between a man and his mother-in-law, usually between a woman and her father-in-law, and sometimes between any person and their same-sex parent-in-law. For some tribes, avoidance relationships are extended to other family members, such as the mother-in-law's brother in 159:, a man and his mother-in-law may not make eye contact, face one another or directly talk to each other. Rather, they must address a third person or even a nearby object. For slightly less restricted relationships, such as between a man and his father-in-law, avoidance style is used and must be spoken in a slow, soft voice. An extreme case of avoidance behavior is found in the 171:
Children in these cultures acquire avoidance speech forms as part of their normal language development, learning with whom to use them at a fairly young age. Additionally, a few languages have another style, called a "secret language" or "mystic language", that is taught to boys as part of initiation
151:"travel" covers several everyday verbs meaning "go", "walk", "crawl", "paddle", "float, sail, drift", and "limp along". Corresponding avoidance and everyday words are generally not linguistically related. Avoidance forms tend to be longer than everyday forms. 154:
In some areas, the avoidance style is used by both members of the avoidance relationship; in others the senior member may talk to the junior in everyday style. Behavior associated with avoidance speech is a continuum and varies between tribes. For the
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is a group of sociolinguistic phenomena in which a special restricted speech style must be used in the presence of or in reference to certain relatives, or in certain situations. Avoidance speech is found in many
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McGrath, Pam; Phillips, Emma (2008). "Australian findings on Aboriginal cultural practices associated with clothing, hair, possessions and use of name of deceased persons".
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Fandrych, Ingrid. "Between tradition and the requirements of modern life: Hlonipha in southern Bantu societies, with special reference to Lesotho."
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O'Connor, Mary Catherine (1990). "Third-person reference in Northern Pomo conversation: The indexing of discourse genre and social relations".
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prohibits speaking and writing syllables or characters that appear in the names of esteemed people, such as emperors, parents, and ancestors.
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as their names. They avoid the taboo words phonologically (substituting sounds) or lexically (replacing words with synonyms, etc.). The
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do not pronounce any words beginning with the same syllable as the name of their husband's mother or father. Instead, they may use
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system also includes avoidance of the names of certain relatives by all speakers and physical avoidance of certain relatives.
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trilogy; the ambulatory males and females avoid most direct communication, and use separate language styles otherwise.
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Treis, Yvonne (2005). "Avoiding their names, avoiding their eyes: How Kambaata women respect their in-laws".
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Goddard, Ives (1979). "South Texas and the lower Rio Grande". In Campbell, L.; Mithun, M. (eds.).
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is closely tied to elaborate tribal kinship systems in which certain relatives are considered
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Hoijer, Harry (1945). "The Apachean verb, part I: Verb structure and pronominal prefixes".
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A special system of avoidance vocabulary is traditionally used by married women speaking
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Finlayson, Rosalie. "Hlonipha—the women's language of avoidance among the Xhosa."
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Rudwick, Stephanie, and Magcino Shange. "Hlonipha and the rural Zulu woman."
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Prabhakaran, Varijakshi. "Hlonipha in Dravidian Languages and Society?."
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Tefera, Anbessa (1987). "Ballissha: Women's Speech Among the Sidama".
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The languages of native America: Historical and comparative assessment
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Dixon, R. M. W. (1980). "Speech and song styles: Avoidance styles".
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Avoidance speech styles used with taboo relatives are often called
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may not say the names of these men or any words with the same
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Lecture notes on Dyirbal illustrating mother-in-law language
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Zungu, Phyllis. "Some aspects of hlonipha in Zulu society."
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Assessing politeness, language and gender in hlonipha.
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Index

Speech taboo
Australian Aboriginal languages
Austronesian languages
North American languages
Anishinaabe-mowin
Highland East Cushitic languages
Southern Bantu languages
naming taboo
phonology
grammar
lexicon
Taboo on naming the dead
Australian Aboriginal languages
taboo
Warlpiri
cross-cousins
Dyirbal
classificatory
lexical sets
grammar
phonology
Guugu Yimidhirr
Dyirbal people
Umpila
Highland East Cushitic languages
Kambaata
Sidamo
paraphrase
borrowings
Nguni Bantu languages

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