Body language nonverbal communication focusing on deriving meaning from eye behavior. It is also crucial to note that Oculesics is culturally dependent. For example, in traditional Anglo-Saxon culture, avoiding eye contact usually portrays a lack of confidence, certainty, or truthfulness. However, in the Latino culture, direct or prolonged eye contact means that you are challenging the individual with whom you are speaking or that you have a romantic interest in the person. Also, in many Asian cultures, prolonged eye contact may be a sign of anger or aggression. Haptics, a subcategory of Body Language, is the study of touching and how it
Adang language siblings, parallel-cousins and cross-cousins. There is a distinction between younger and older siblings/cousins, respectively "diʔ" and "matu", and a single term for the same group: "-uding." These terms are all gender-neutral, but can be modified with "ob" ‘female’ or "lote" ‘male’ (e.g. "no’uding lote" ‘my sister’). For biological siblings "matu" or "diʔ" is preferred, but "-uding" is also acceptable. Conversely, parallel-cousins are generally called -"uding" but may sometimes be called "matu/diʔ". Cross-cousins are almost exclusively referred to as "-uding." Adang language Adang is a Papuan language spoken on the island of Alor in Indonesia. The language is agglutinative. The Hamap