Description:

Refer to the attached articles for 'akki', elder sibling, and 'itti', younger sibling, for a fuller discussion of sibling relationships. 'Siplin' was borrowed from English in the early modern period to serve as a general technical word for siblings. It is not much used outside that context - most speakers will say 'akki pi itt' to refer to older and young siblings collectively.

'Siplin' is also used in technical contexts to describe the relationships of nodes in a tree, such as in a data structure.