This article presents data on the study of kinship terms in English language through the years. Kinship terms can be considered as a pattern of social and cultural interaction of language. There are mentioned several viewpoints of researchers and described kinship terms as a linguistic structure of a language.

kinship terminology, linguistic structure, social relationships, kinship relations, communication.

Husanova F, “Study of kinship terms in English”, Central Asian journal of literature, philosophy and culture, June 2023, 119-120p

Lalaouna D, Sididris A, “Exploring the significance of kinship terminology in a specific social and cultural system”, Social Sciences and Education Research Review, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2024, 296-300p

Morgan L.H, “System of Consanguinity and affinity in the Human Family”, Washington, 1871. 131p

Murdock G.P, “Social Structure”, London Third Printing, March 1967, 91-113p

Nadimpalli S.K, Prasad K.S, Raghava P.V, “Kinship terms in Telugu and English”, International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Invention, April 2024, 44p

Ochilova G.U, “Research on the methods of kinship terms analysis”, Western European Journal of Linguistics and Education, March 2025, 77p

Passmore S, “Quantative approaches to kinship terminology evolution”, Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Bristol, 2020, 6p

Read D, “Kinship terminology”, International Encyclopedia of the social and Behavioral Sciences”, 2nd edition, 2015, 61-62p

Read D, Leaf M, “Introduction to the science of kinship”, Lexington books, USA, 2020.18p

Sydney M. Lamb, “Kinship terminology and Linguistic structure”, Journal of American Anthropologist, October 1965, 37p