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Familial Structure
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kinship, sans-gender
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--Preface--
This is the family structure for the culture Sanguine Rythulian operates within. For the most part, nobody outside what is described here is considered a part of your family. No relation is defined by sex or gender.

--Parents--
Your parents are known as your mama and your mimi. The one who plays the bigger hand in raising the child is the mama, and the one who works to support the family is mimi. Although the mama is typically the one who birthed them, it can vary. Additionally, if parents have a surrogate/nurse, they are considered a sort of third parent, and are known as the pima. Your pima’s family is not considered your family. A nondescript parent is a piwi, and your parents would be referred to more often as ko a sa piwi than ko a mama ta mimi.


--Siblings--
Your siblings are collectively known as your tońa. Your reference to them depends on your relative age.
The sibling that is directly older than you is your otońa, and any siblings that are older than your otońa are your opotońa. Similarly, the sibling that is directly younger than you is your kitońa, and any siblings younger than them are your kikitońa. If an otońa or a kitońa die, any opotońa or kikitońa do not change their title.

Your sibling's spouse takes the same role as your sibling. For example, if your otońa married, their spouse would also be an otońa to you. Any children your siblings have are known as your tokija.

--Spouse and Children--
Your spouse is your saki. You would call any family members of your spouse by the title they use. Their kitońa would be your kitońa, their mama would be your mama, etc.

Your children are known as your kija. Your oldest child is your okija. Anybody your children marry become your kija as well. If your okija marries, their spouse becomes a second okija.

Your grandchildren/their spouses are amakija, and in the event you manage to live to have great grandchildren, they would be known as your ikokija (including their spouses). Any generations beyond this would be ikokija as well.

--Grandparents--
Your grandparents are your opiwi. Both your mama's mama and your mima's mama are your oma, and your mama's mimi and your mima's mima are your omi. Alternatively, an oma might be known as an omama or some other mutation in that vein in order to minimize confusion between which grandparent is which (though it always suffices to just say ko a mama a mama).

Great-grandparents and beyond are known as your końawi.

--Auncles and Cousins--
Your parents' siblings are known as either your matońa or your mitońa depending on which side of the family they come from (matońa -> mama, mitońa -> mimi). Their spouses are your pitońa, and any cousins you have are known as your amato or amito (again following which side of the family they're on).

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