For each database, as well as the aggregated database can be found within the Github organization: https://github.com/kinbank/
Archived versions of each database can be found by following the DOIs from their respected citations. The citation for each database as as follows:
Kinbank
https://github.com/kinbank/kinbank
Varikin
Passmore, S., Sheard, C., Argyriou, P., Bowern, C., Calladine, J., Deb, A., … Jordan, F. M. (2022). Varikin: A global collection of kinship terminology [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6562609 https://github.com/kinbank/varikin
Parabank
Barth, W., Greenhill, S., Quinn, K., Passmore, S., Jordan, F. M., & Evans, N. D. (2022). Parabank: A global collection of kinship terminology [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6562601 https://github.com/kinbank/parabank
Kinura
Honkola, T., Metsäranta, N., Milanova, V., Passmore, S., & Jordan, F. M. (2022). Kinura: A database of kinship terminology from the Uralic Language family [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6673055 https://github.com/kinbank/kinura
MPEGKin
Birchall, J., Araujo, L. H., Passmore, S., & Jordan, F. M. (2022). MPEGKin: A database of kinship terminology from the Tupian and Cariban language families [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6474213
https://github.com/kinbank/goeldi

Languages

Kinbank is a database containing 183,282 different data points across 1235 languages. Kinbank is a collaborative project between the Australian National University, the University of Bristol, the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, and the University of Helsinki. The collaborative effort has seen the digitisation of existing databases, such as Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity (Morgan, 1871), as well as the centralisation of ethnographic information, and the recording of native speakers to provide a broad global coverage of kinship terminology. Focused sampling for languages attached to existing cultural and linguistic databases (e.g. D-PLACE; Kirby et al., 2016), and to computational language phylogenies (e.g. Honkola et al., 2013) provides the platform or evolutionary and analytic approaches to kinship terminology. Finally, dense regional sampling in Tupian, Carib, and Uralic language families provides the opportunity to explore granular variation in kinship terminology. To access the data in its raw form visit: https://github.com/kinbank/. This link contains the aggregated dataset (Kinbank) and the separately citable datasets, Parabank, Kinbank, MPEGKin, and Kinura.

Parameters

The primary search criteria for Kinbank were a core set of 115 kin types (88 genealogical kin and 27 kin by marriage (affines)). The sampling grid is available within the Kinbank Github repository: https://github.com/kinbank/kinbank. This database differentiates between kin types (a genealogical position in the etic grid) and kin terms (the word used to describe one or more genealogical positions). For example: kin types such as father's brother and mother's brother, are covered by a single kinterm uncle in English, but by two terms ah-ta' and '-she'-she, in Uncpapa Dakota (USA). The core set of kin types encompass the ‘nuclear’ family, up to grandparents and down to grandchildren, and from parents to their siblings and parent's siblings' children. Many languages have separate terms depending on the gender of the speaker and we collected all where available. Affinal terms were collected for spouses, spouses of siblings, and terms for spouse's nuclear family. Within ego's generation and ego's parent's generation, kin types are also distinguished by relative age, and age of linking relative, where appropriate. This set is derived from a genealogical grid of relatives and aims to capture a globally recurrent set of cross-culturally valid kin-members.

Further Information

If you would like more information, please read the accompanying database article: Passmore et. al (In Prep). If you are interested in contributing to the data or want to ask us some questions please contact Dr Sam Passmore (email available in the "Team" tab).

	Fiona Jordan Principal Investigator	Website Email @fiona_jordan
	Nicholas Evans Principal Investigator
	Simon Greenhill Associate Investigator and Database Design
	Sam Passmore Project Management, Database Design, Kinbank co-lead, and Website Design	Website Email @SamPassmore_
	Catherine Sheard Project Management, Data Collection, and Kinbank co-lead	Website @sheardcat
	Wolfgang Barth Database Design, Data collection, and Data Analysis
	Kyla Quinn Data collection and Data Analysis
	Claire Bowern Austkin collaborator and Data collection
	Terhi Honkola Kinura Lead and Data collection
	Joshua Birchall MPEGKin Lead and Data collection
	Luis Henrique Oliveira Data collection
	Paraskevi Argyriou Data collection
	Jasmine Calladine Data collection
	Maisie Ford Data collection
	Isobel Clifton Data collection
	Angarika Deb Data collection
	Lucy Harries Data collection
	Jo Hickey-Hall Data collection
	Peter Racz Data collection
	Sean Roberts Data collection
	Rob Ross Data collection
	Ewan Thomas-Colquhoun Data collection
	Anouk Diederen Data collection
	Lieke Hoenselaar Data collection
	Maarten van den Heuvel Data collection
	Niklas Metsäranta Data collection
	Alice Mitchell Data collection

Funding

Kinbank was built thanks to funding from the European Research Council, the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Data collected by Varikin was funded thanks to the European Research Council. Data collected by Parabank was funded thanks to the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Data collected by MPEGKin was funded thanks to the British Academy International Partnership and Mobility Scheme and the European Research Council. Data collected by Kinura was funded thanks to the Kone Foundation.