Re: OT: Anthroponymics

Carsten Becker wrote:

> OBConlang: Are there special naming patterns in your
> conlangs? My Ayeri people go by happily with [family name]
> [first name(s)].
This is more a concultural thing than anything. Well...

The family isn't a social structure of the shaquean society so they
don't have family names. Instead of families, they have "clans" which
gather several genetic lineages in one group. These "clans" have a name
which may correspond to the clan house place or not. And the full name
of a Shaquean is [Clan name] [First name] and one can only have one
first name.

When two Shaqueans decide to live together --There is no legal marriage
on Shaquie--, they insert the name of the new clan in the middle of
their full name. That can be the clan where they decide to live or a new
invented name if they settle somewhere to create a new clan. If they
decide to live in one of their clan houses, only one of them get a new name.

[Previous clan's name] [Current clan's name] [First name]

Since people can move to another clan any time, it's a common habit to
keep the name of one's birth clan. There's a law which enforces the
taboo that you can't have a partner from your birth clan.

[Birth clan] (List of previous clans) [Current clan] [First name]

The optional list of previous clans is ordered from the farthest in time
to the closest.

But in everyday life, Shaqueans get along with only their first name. If
you really insist, they may give you the name of their current clan.
Beyond that, it's a rather personal piece of information that they don't
share with everyone.

The (sort of) shaquean administration doesn't care about names. They
have more to do than tracking changes of names of 12.5 billions of
Shaqueans. They use Personal Identification Numbers which get translated
on-the-fly in any name the addressee whishes to see. (Happy computerized
society!)

Famous people use a public name (usually their first name) and the name
of the occupation which makes them so famous. For example:

fasiba gäre Kaluura sairëkU.
[fasiba: g3Xe ka4u"uXa sa"iXEku]

= I call myself "The linguist Kaluura".

"Vilatël kaluurA" is the full name of my shaquean con-alter-ego which
takes so much time to write some shaquean grammar.  ;-)  (Don't ask why
"KaluurA".)

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