Re: Personal names (was Re: Story - TCOAIW)

Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
 >On Oct/08/2002, daniel andreasson wrote:
>
> > Speaking of which. Does anyone know where Yoon Ha Lee
> > actually is? Was she abducted by Real Life (TM)? Last message
>
>         Just curious: how do you know she's "she", and not "he", by her
>name? I ask simply because oriental names are a mistery to me O:-)
She used to be pretty active on the list.

>         ObConlang: how do you deal with this in your conlangs? Do
>masculine and feminine names follow any special rule to distinguish ones
>from the other?
In Tairezazh, masculine names tend to end in -o and feminine ones in -a
(boringly romancesque, I know, but WAY to late to change), altho' their a
good number of names ending in something else, which you can't decide the
gender of from form (eg the common man's name _Fkaz_). Steianzh used to have
the same system, but since final vowels've merged as [@], you can't tell the
gender anymore, except for those featuring the longer endings _-ze_<_-za_
and _-ve_<_-vo_ (the older forms are still found in Tairezazh). Doublets
exist; for instance _Tazje_, corresponding to Tairezazh _Tazio_ and _Tazia_,
can be either masc or fem.

                                                         Andreas

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