My name is Arikea

'Ja ira.

My last post was about family names. This follow-up is about first names. Kazujishans usually have one first name. Examples could be Tabetalat, Rigu Vajata, Verahi... but, there's no John Smith in Kazujisha. Why?

An important thing regarding Kazujisha families is that no two people currently alive may share the same first name. As such, I'm the only Arikea Hargiutamá in the entire world, but I know for sure that there is at least another Arikea in Kazujisha. Another consequence is that it is very common for names to not have any special meaning, other than sounding nice! I'm an exception as arikea means "air". A negative aspect is that it is sometimes hard to remember nonsense names because they are all different! Personally I believe that is a contributing reason why we highly prefer calling people their family names instead of first names in Kazujisha... :-)

It's pretty common for families to have naming traditions. There's a quite well-known branch of the family Imnitega where all females have a double-name starting with Val (Val Marin Imnitega is a quite known physicist from it, look her up on Wikipedia). My families don't.

What else? I really can't come up with anything...
I guess I'll call it a post. Nãei!

Arikea