Hi Everyone,
As I indicated yesterday, I did not have time to read what everybody posted.
And I missed this one from Jabou 'Ebou and Yassin clearly have Arabic
origins'. I did not write Ebou. I wrote Ebu (pronounced Ehbu). As for
Yassin, I know some Christians who have such a name. I am not going to guess
its origin. I know there used to be a Russian goalkeeper called Yashin. The
same with Anna. I know Muslims who have this name. It's possible that these
names originated from other places. But that's why people do research,
isn't? Cheers.
Momodou
>From: momodou njie <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: COLLECTING TYPICAL GAMBIAN NAMES
>Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 12:08:22 PDT
>
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I apologise for any misunderstanding. I read Jabou's posting in a hurry,
>and
>did not want to include names that were already mentioned. I have only
>praise for her. Cheers.
>
>Momodou
>
>
>>From: [log in to unmask]
>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
>><[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: COLLECTING TYPICAL GAMBIAN NAMES
>>Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 11:38:24 EDT
>>
>>In a message dated 8/8/99 7:40:21 AM Central Daylight Time,
>>[log in to unmask] writes:
>>
>><< Momodou
>>
>> PS I'm not sure whether Jabou added the following to her list : Nyanya,
>> Kojo, Hoyan, Njuga, Anna, Yassin, Oseh, Ebu, Bola, Abioseh, Tunde etc I
>>am
>> not suggesting that these are 'typical' Gambian names, but are names
>>that
>> are not common on the List.
>> >>
>>*****************
>>Momodou,
>>
>>My understanding is that Saiks is looking for names that do not have an
>>English or Arabic origin, but are names that were used in our culture
>>before
>>our encounter with the Western World or Islam, i.e. traditional
>>Mandinka,
>>Wollof, Jolla, Sererr names, just to name a few since there are certainly
>>many more groups in Gambia. Some of the names you have mentioned above
>>such
>>as Ebou and Yassin clearly have Arabic origins, and the name Anna l
>>would
>>guess has an English origin or at least Western. The other ones such as
>>Kojo, Oseh, Bola , Abiosa, Tunde l will venture to guess have maybe
>>Nigerian
>>or Ghanaian origins? Just a guess on this one.
>>
>>Jabou
>>
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