{"id":4944,"date":"2020-12-29T13:04:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T13:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/29\/talking-to-in-laws-can-be-hard-in-some-languages-its-impossible-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2020-12-29T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T13:04:48","slug":"talking-to-in-laws-can-be-hard-in-some-languages-its-impossible-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/29\/talking-to-in-laws-can-be-hard-in-some-languages-its-impossible-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking to In-laws Can Be Hard. In Some Languages, It\u2019s Impossible. &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Avoidance speech is also practiced by speakers of some of the Bantu languages of southern Africa, including Xhosa and Zulu. Married women are forbidden from using their father-in-law\u2019s name, or any word that has the same root or similar sound.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bantu speakers often get around this restriction by borrowing synonyms from other languages spoken nearby. Some linguists think that is how click consonants found their way into Bantu speech: in words borrowed from Khoisan languages, which use clicks extensively.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In parts of India, a daughter-in-law is not allowed to use words that begin with the same letters as her in-laws\u2019 names, requiring her to use a parallel vocabulary.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/09\/world\/what-in-the-world\/avoidance-speech-mother-in-law-languages.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/09\/world\/what-in-the-world\/avoidance-speech-mother-in-law-languages.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avoidance speech is also practiced by speakers of some of the Bantu languages of southern Africa, including Xhosa and Zulu. Married women are forbidden from using their father-in-law\u2019s name, or any word that has the same root or similar sound. Bantu speakers often get around this restriction by borrowing synonyms from other languages spoken nearby. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1hK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}