I've also noticed that English doesn't have a word for consuegro (or in Portuguese consogro and in Italian consuocero), but there's another word English doesn't have: Portuguese and Spanish compadre (one's child's godfather) or comadre (one's child's godmother). There's a discussion about it, which I started, here: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=727556&highlight=compadre.
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Jazyk
I was recently studying a grammar of the African language Xhosa and found it interesting that the language has separate words for your mother's sister and your father's sister, as well as your aunt by marriage and aunt by blood, etc. I wish English had these same specifications. Does anyone know of examples from other languages?
P.S. Interestingly, the only relations that were not specfied as paternal or maternal were the grandparents.