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The Serbo-Croatian standard languages have one of the more elaborate kinship systems among European languages. Terminology may differ from place to place. Most words are common to other Slavic languages, though some derive from Turkish. The standardized languages may recognize slightly different pronunciations or dialectical forms; all terms are considered standard in all language standards, unless otherwise marked: , , and below.
There are four main types of kinship in the family: biological a.k.a. blood kinship, kinship by law , spiritual kinship , and legal kinship through adoption and remarriage.
As is common in many rural family structures, three generations of a family will live together in a home in what anthropologists call a joint family structure, where parents, their son, and grandchildren would cohabit in a family home.