Personal Name in Bantu Languages of East Africa

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Keywords: model of personal name; ethnicity, gender and confessional affiliation of the family name; semantic; nicknames; pseudonyms

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Nelli V. Gromova Personal Name in Bantu Languages of East Africa. // Lomonosov Oriental Studies Journal. 2013. N 2, p.40–47

Nelli V. Gromova

Abstract

The article is devoted to revelation of peculiarities of personal names in some of the Bantu languages of East Africa. Morphemic structure of the family name can be an indication of ethnicity, gender and confessional affiliation of the owner’s own name. The article also reviews semantics of the personal name, nicknames and pseudonyms.