"What's your name?" - First Names and Surnames: view article

Chimean, personal names consist of a given name and a surname.
These names though follow a strict scheme...

Names (Given Names)

Generally, first names consist of three parts.
- Starting letter - This letter can be any character from the Chimean alphabet.
- The Middle part - This is the part between the first character and the last one.
- The sex indicator - This can be either o, a or sometimes e.

The starting letter is of certain importance in the Chimean culture and how names are chosen for one's child. It's not something of importance in grammar or word structure.

The middle part is again something of cultural importance and thus will not be further explained here, except from the fact that the middle part should generally end with the letter "i", exceptions are made.

The sex indicator is the last letter and indicates the sex of the person using that name.
For males, it's -o, for females, it's -a. The only exception is -e, which is used for both sexes or transgender.

An example: The name Paneia. We can determine that the person with the name is female and that the first letter is a P. Again, culture. That will be explained in another article.
Another example: The name Konie. The person's sex is unknown just looking at the word. It's actually a male name.

Surnames

Surnames are really easy.
They only consist of two words:
- Don, which is the word for "of" or "from"
- A nomen from the language, again, cultural stuff.

An example: Don Cuikla, which means "Of/from (the) day (cycle)"

Both together and rhythm

You'll notice that any name sounds well with any surname.
"Famia Don Cuikla" sounda good, huh?
As well as "Darkie Don Khuma" does.
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