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National and cultural component in amharic: formula of a personal name at the Ethiopian Christians
Abstract
The article is devoted to one of the most peculiar systems of personal names in the world — that of the Christian ethnic groups in Ethiopia. The author speaks about the naming conventions of the Ethiopian Christians and dwells on such topics as the sources of the name fund, the motivation while choosing a child's name as well as the morphological and syntactic structure of personal names.
Keywords
personal names, naming convention, morphological and syntactic structure, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Christianity
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