Ties of patrilineal kinship and marriage alliance bind the Akha within and between communities. The tribe has a matrilineal system of kinship and inheritance. People are interconnected by ties of kinship and friendship. Noblewomen appear to have continued to influence political life mainly through their kinship relationships. A place that sheltered a clan's or family's patrilineal kinship. Seven relations are prohibited because of consanguinity, i.e. kinship or relationship by blood, viz. Besides they have claims of kinship and friendship with us. Most Western societies employ Eskimo kinship terminology. A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Whether the similarity is evidence of kinship or mere coincidence is hard to tell. Pakistani village life is marked by kinship and exchange relations. Women were in charge of the kinship groups called clans. They were frontier peoples, who dispersed their settlements based on kinship. More over the rule of kinship or marriage is governed by the different marriage laws. Language has been fundamental in defining the boundaries of that kinship.