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• TITLE: Kamuə Female Personal Names and Identity in Cultural Contexts

  AUTHORS: John Peter Wappa, Richard Sylvester Wada

  KEYWORDS: Kamuə, Personal Names, Maiden Names, Socio-Cultural, Identity, Higgi, Onomastics

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, Vol.9 No.2, April 30, 2019

  ABSTRACT: The study investigated the Kamuə female personal names as socio-cultural identity of the Kamuə people using the anthroponomastic framework. Sampling of about 72 participants and 12 domiciles of elders is interviewed from 12 villages to collect data for the study. The study was able to identify various types of female personal names of the Kamuə people to include birth order names, female twins names, circumstantial Kamuə female names and the Kamuə maiden personal names. In addition, they are mostly sentential and proverbial in nature except for the birth order names. They display the historical and socio-cultural identity of the Kamuə people and the Kamuə language.