Re: Anthroponymy (was Re: Re: Laadan)

Mau írja:

>Isaac A. Penzev írta:
>
>  > The only exception is Hungarian anthroponymy
>  > with its reversee order. It is easily explained by the fact that in
>>  the Hungarian language adjectives _always_ precede nouns they modify,
>>  and all Hungarian family names are treated as adjectives"
>Mwa Longoyapan gebusa tawiy (she tentie balterwenna).
>Japanese also has that order (tho' I don't know the reason).
As does Chinese. The reasoning I learned was that you always work
from the largest element to the smallest. This includes dates which
are year, month, day; addresses which are country (if sent from
abroad), province, city or town, street, alley (if extant), house
number, person;  and names which are surname, given name. All three
languages work this way AFAIK, and coincidentally, all three have
adjs. preceding their nouns, but I don't know what that means -- I
never thought about it this way before.

Kou