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is, as co-inheritors from the same female ancestress. The 
nearer relationships are very exact. The first-born in a 
to paternal aunts and uncles. A paternal aunt younger than 
one’s father and a maternal aunt younger than one’s mother 
are both called indok ktchil*; a maternal uncle younger than 
one’s mother or a paternal uncle younger than one’s father 
are alike bapa kéchil. 
Brothers and sisters are, as everywhere in the peninsula, 
adek-béradek, saudara; also, a description peculiar to N. 
e term sanak corresponds to the Minangkabau term 
dansanak dusanak and describes a blood relation on the 
Even when a woman’s children marry, still they will 
reckon their parents-in-law only on the femaleside. Minantu 
means “' son-in-law ’’ or ‘‘ daughter-in-law,’’ both being equally 
recognized and valuable under the adat. But in Negri 
Sembilan mintua means ‘“‘ mother-in-law,” and the phrase bapa 
mintua,‘‘ father-in-law,” is a neologism, the position not being 
included in the matriarchal conception of the family. For 
f there are only three children the second is called Angah or Achik. 
landeh kete, Min 
ak, saudara samendeh, Min. 
1 
2 
3 Dansan 
+ Her husband is called tunadi, Min. 
5 Badansenak mandeh, b ibu or biai. 
6 Sanskrit. 
