Language and Name Culture: Tracing the Origins of East Asian Personal Names, Place Names, and Ethnic Names: Tracing the Origins of East Asian Personal Names, Place Names, and Ethnic Names

Author: Zhang Huiying
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: The study of personal names, place names, and ethnic names can be extremely broad, encompassing everything from astronomy to geography. However, we focus on the following three aspects:
First, naming using kinship and seniority terms such as " (fù), (bà), (bó), (shū), (lǎo), (dà), (mǔ), (niáng), (gū), (jiě), (láng), (zǐ)," etc.
Second, naming using colloquial terms for social status such as " (zhào), (lù), (fèng), (fān), (mán), (měng)," etc.
Third, word formation and naming using demonstrative words such as " (ā), (ge), (zhě - this), (nà)."
These naming phenomena not only reflect common features in Chinese dialects and ethnic languages but also reflect the ancient civilization of ancient China as well as the entire Southeast Asia and East Asia.