Abstract:
This research was aimed to describe the similarities and the differences
of kinship term in English and Malay Hamparan Perak. The design of The
research was descriptive qualitative. The data were all kinship term in English
and Malay Hamparan Perak . The source data of kinship term in Malay
Hamparan Perak were obtained by interview some native speaker of malay
people. The data of English kinship term were obtained by documentary
technique. The similarities of kinship term in English and Malay Hamparan
Perak have the principles such as generation, lineallity and collaterality, gender,
consanguineal and affinal. The differences of kinship term in English and Malay
Hamparan Perak were related with different age. Malay hamparan Perak has
kinship term based on relative age
