Kinship

We've switched to doing these on Fridays. Evidently she had some trouble getting to her bus after the Wednesday meetings.

Regardless, we moved on with my next assignment, Kinship patterns. This time, she seemed to get what I was asking pretty quickly.

This first image traces the patricial side.

This second image is the matrilineal side.


As seen, there are a few differences between each. A paternal Grandfather is a ONG NOI, while a maternal Grandfather is a ONG NGOAI (pardon the lack of diacritics.) These terms extend into aunts, uncles, and cousins of various sorts. For a native English speaker with no experience in other languages, this may be a bit confusing. I had already been exposed to this possibility in German (der cousin, die cousine,) when it comes to differences between male and female cousins, but no distinction is made in terms of descent. Sadly, she did not know why this is so.
Looking around online, I found that kinship terms are often used as honorifics.

No questions about Vietnam here, aside from about kinship.