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Tagalog borrows the relative age system of the Chinese kinship and follows the generation system of kinship.Philippine kinship distinguishes between generation, age and in some cases, gender.Floyd Lounsbury described a possible seventh, Dravidian, type of terminological system; there is on-going discussion on whether this system is a sub-type of Iroquois or whether it is a distinct system that had been conflated with Iroquois in Morgan’s typology of kin-term systems.