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====The naming conventions of the Quagga Clan====

A child gets a name from the ancestral pool, subject to the approval of that ancestor. A secret name is given by the mother, who offers various choices to the crying baby and selects the one that stops the baby from crying. Traditionally this is weather condition + day of the week (the current day, not the birthday) for girls and tool + animal for boys. Cloudymonday and Monkeyhammer are typical examples. The child also has a patryonymic based on the *mother's* maiden name in the form of first two syllables + "mya". Then the father's family name, followed by "ja" and "Kwaga" (Quagga). Thus a young girl might be Gilikyani (the ancestor) Sawamya (patryonym) Shikyaana (family) ja Kwaga (clan). The secret name, Breezythursday, is not given out lightly. When she is circumcised, she will add "kwarika" and the title of her age grade. When she marries a man of the giraffe clan (which uses basically the same conventions) whose family name is Ganyi, she changes her name to Gilikyani  Shikyaba (a new patronym based on her maiden name) Ganyi kwarika Kamualinyi (age-grade) za (za instead of ja because she married into the clan) Twiga. Her unmarried children will construct their patryonym based on "Shikyaba", becoming "so-and-so Shikyamya Ganyi ja Twiga".

Gilikyani Shikyaba Ganyi kwarika Kamualinyi za Twiga
 

hippo, cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), , hunting dog,  colobus monkey, civet cat (Civettictis civetta), , genet cat, buffalo (Syncerus caffer), plains zebra (Equus burchelli), black rhino (Diceros bicornis), bushpig,golden jackal(Canis aureus), serval cat (Felis serval), girrafe, honey badger (Mellivora capensis), caracal (Felis caracal), bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis), Quagga, River sabretooth, Thomson’s gazelle (Gazella thomsoni), eland (Taurotragus oryx), Grant’s gazelles (Gazella granti), topi (Damaliscus lunatus), waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) ,Coke’s hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus), impala (Aepyceros melampus)