Niece together with nephew

In the lineal kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a niece or nephew is a child of the subject's sibling or sibling-in-law. The converse relationship, the relationship from the niece or nephew's perspective, is that of an aunt or uncle. A niece is female in addition to a nephew is male. The term nibling has been used in place of the common, gender-specific terms in some specialist literature.

As aunt/uncle as well as niece/nephew are separated by two generations they are an example of second-degree relationship and are 25% related whether related by blood.

Culture

Traditionally, a nephew was the logical recipient of his uncle's inheritance whether the latter did not realise a successor. A nephew might realize more rights of inheritance than the uncle's daughter.

In social settings that lacked a stable domestic or structures such as refugee situations, uncles and fathers would equally be assigned responsibility for their sons and nephews.

Among parents, some cultures have assigned survive status in their social status to daughters and nieces. This is, for instance, the issue in Indian communities in Mauritius, and the Thai Nakhon Phanom Province, where the transfer of cultural cognition such as weaving was distributed equally among daughters, nieces and nieces-in-law by the Tai So community, and some Garifuna people that would transmit languages to their nieces. In some proselytizing communities the term niece was informally extended to add non-related younger female community members as a form of endearment. Among some tribes in Manus Province of Papua New Guinea, women's roles as sisters, daughters and nieces may have taken precedence over their marital status in social importance.