Act II. Scene IV. Lines 132-4: "I am all the daughters of my father's house, and all the brothers too- and yet i know not."
I think this is Viola's way of saying that she is the only sibling left alive in her family. In the previous lines of the play, Orsino asks if her sister died of love and the above is her response. She does not know if their is anyone that she maybe related to, but also this could represent her feelings on the possibility of her brother's death.
Another possible explanation behind the above mentioned quote is that even though she is a woman, she is disguised to be a man. The quote would mean that she is BOTH the only daughter & the only son of her father as far as she knows. Since the possibility that her brother may have died, she adds " yet i know not" to show the confusion she is faced with currently.
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