Personal Names

A personal name comes from one of three stocks.

Names from Swahili and Hausa, the languages of the settlers. They are the most common stock on th...

Names from Mandarin and Tagalog, the languages of the crew. They are most frequent in the old tec...

Names made of Creole words. They are the newest stock and the one that grows. A Duskaran name rec...

A bonded animal has one short name, nearly always a Creole word: Kasi, Wimbi, Taa, Shimu.