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Some resources on Names and Name diversity

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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names – With Examples

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https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

Akhtar, Nasreen. 2007. “Indexing Asian Names.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 25 (4): C3:12-C3:14. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2007.49.
Alakus, Meral. 2007. “Turkish Names.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 25 (3): C5–8. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2007.24.
Bridge, Noeline. 2006. “French Names.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 25 (2): C8–11. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2006.44.
———. 2011. “Personal Names as Phrases.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 29 (4): C1–4. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2011.52.
Briggs, Robin. 2012. “Māori Names in Indexes.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 30 (2): 76–79. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2012.15.
Cóil, Róisín Nic. 2011. “Irish Prefixes and the Alphabetization of Personal Names.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 29 (2): C1–6. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2011.25.
Cronshaw, Francine. 2007. “Spanish Personal Names.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 25 (4): C3:5-C3:7. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2007.46.
Dai, Liqun. 2006a. “Chinese Personal Names.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 25 (2): C1–2. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2006.42.
———. 2006b. “Chinese Personal Names.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2006.42.
———. 2006c. “The Hundred Surnames: A Pinyin Index.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 25 (2): C3–8. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2006.43.
Giorgis, Kebreab W. 2007. “The Entry Word in Ethiopian Names.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 25 (4): C3:8-C3:9. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2007.47.
Hedden, Heather. 2007. “Arabic Names.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 25 (3): C9–15. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2007.25.
Heung, Lam Lai. 2013. “Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) Names: Resources for the Indexer.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 31 (2): c1–6. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2013.c1.
Moore, Donald. 2011. “The Indexing of Welsh Personal Names.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 29 (2): C7–14. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2011.26.
Pitchford, Jacqueline. 2006. “Dutch, German, Austrian, Flemish and Afrikaans Names.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 25 (2): C11–14. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2006.45.
Power, John. 2008. “Japanese Names.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 26 (2): C4-2-C4-8. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2008.29.
Price, Fiona Swee-Lin. 2013. “Asian Names in an English-Language Context: Negotiating the Structural and Linguistic Minefield.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 31 (2): c7–8. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2013.c7.
Sahai, Manjit K. 2017. “Sikh Names: Theory, Conventions and Practices.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 35 (3): C1–3. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2017.42.
Searight, E. E. G. L. 2007. “Indexing Tibetan Names: Some Suggestions.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 25 (4): C3:10-C3:11. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2007.48.
Shuttleworth, Christine. 2006. “Italian Names.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 25 (2): C15–16. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2006.46.
Triffit, Geraldine. 2007. “Australian Aboriginal Names.” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 25 (3): C1–4. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2007.23.
Willet, Shelagh. 2007. “Khoe-San Names (African Click Languages).” The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 25 (4): C3:1-C3:4. https://doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2007.45.

Citations, Names and Language Documentation

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I have recently been reading the blog of Martin Fenner and came upon the article Personal names around the world [1] Martin Fenner. 14 August 2011. Personal names around the world. PLoS Blog Network. http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2011/08/14/personal-names-around-the-world . [Accessed: 16 September 2011]. [Link] . His post is in fact a reflection on a W3C paper on Personal Names around the WorldSeveral other reflections are here: http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Personal_names (same title). This is apparently coming out of the i18n effort and is an effort to help authors and database designers make informed decisions about names on the web.
I read Martin’s post with some interest because in Language Documentation getting someone’s name as a source or for informed consent is very important (from a U.S. context). Working in a archive dealing with language materials, I see lot of names. One of the interesting situations which came to me from an Ecuadorian context was different from what I have seen in the w3.org paper or in the w3.org discussion. The naming convention went like this:

The elder was known by the younger’s name plus a relationship.

My suspicion is that it is a taboo to name the dead. So to avoid possibly naming the dead, the younger was referenced and the the relationship was invoked. This affected me in the archive as I am supposed to note who the speaker is on the recordings. In lue of the speakers name, I have the young son’s first name, who is well known in the community, and is in his 30’s or so, and I have the relationship. So in English this might sound like John’s mother. Now what am I supposed to put in the metadata record for the audio recordings I am cataloging? I do not have a name but I do have a relationship to a known (to the community) person.

I inquired with a literacy consultant who has worked in Ecuador with indigenous people for some years, she informed me that in one context she was working in everyone knew what family line they were from and all the names were derived from that family line by position. It was of such that to call someone by there name was an insult.

It sort of reminds me of this sketch by Fry and Laurie.

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↑1 Martin Fenner. 14 August 2011. Personal names around the world. PLoS Blog Network. http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2011/08/14/personal-names-around-the-world . [Accessed: 16 September 2011]. [Link]