I recently published the main output from my PhD - Kinbank. Kinbank is a database of more than 1,200 kinship terminology from languages around the world. This post is a place to record the media reporting on the paper.

You can interact with the dataset here: www.kinbank.net

You can read the paper here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283218

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Here is my twitter thread about the paper: https://twitter.com/SamPassmore_/status/1661561173811294208?s=20

Phys.org: Database stores names for family members in 1,200+ languages Swifttelecast: Database stores names for family members in 1,200+ languages

ANU Reporter: What’s in a name? Why the words we use for family members tell a much bigger story

Museu Emílio Goeldi: Twitter thread

Reddit discussion: Linguistics

Podcast “Beacause Language”: around 30 minute mark