French: rang de femmeEnglish translation: rank of wife 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | rang de femme | | English translation: | rank of wife | | Entered by: | liz askew |
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Genealogy / birth certificate, Laos | | French term or phrase: rang de femme | | A birth certificate in Laotian (or so the client would have me believe), lists the usual things like time and place of birth. Under the section for the mother, after her name, age, and occupation, the text reads "rang de femme." Does this indicate whether she was the first or second, etc. wife? Why is that important for the child? Inheritance reasons? This is a pre-printed form and I can't read the answers on my copy. The client says they are handwritten in very light ink. Thanks very much in advance. |
| | Clarification request(s) and responsemediamatrix: 8:19pm Jul 24, 2008: It would help enormously to know what the cert. says after this heading: is it a number? words? - if so what word(s)? If you can't read your copy I suggest you ask your client to tell you what it says on her original.
Elizeth Labega: 8:49pm Jul 24, 2008: 1er rang - The client says it looks like 1er rang is what is written in under this category.
Irene McClure: 8:57pm Jul 24, 2008: "First-rank wife" gets a few ghits and would corroborate liz's answer - also given that polygyny is not uncommon in some parts of Laos it would make sense...
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| | rank of wife | Explanation:
African Families and the Crisis of Social Change - Google Books Result
by Thomas S. Weisner, Candice Bradley, Philip ... - 1997 - Social Science - 369 pages
The mean values for the various types of houses by rank of wife, shown in the last column, support the hypothesis that rank of a wife is reflected in the ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0897894731...
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Note added at 13 hrs (2008-07-25 07:59:42 GMT)
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i.e. they don't all have the same status! |
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 liz askew
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The translation workplace 
peer agreement (net): +4