About tuareg names
The connectors do the work here: "Tamagit ult Bay" uses ult, daughter of, while "Aflan ag Musa" uses ag, son of, so every result states its parentage outright. These fit Saharan caravan fiction, desert campaign settings, or nomad factions on a sandbox map. Keep the particles lowercase and intact, they are grammar, not decoration.
How tuareg names are built
A result joins a given element to a parent element with a fixed connector token: male names place ag between two names from the male/parent bank, and female names place ult between a female given and a parent name. The male/parent bank holds 115 entries and the female given bank 76. So Ahmed ag Khemidou and Tamagit ult Bay each place a connector between two name tokens.
Ahmed ag Khemidou
Ahmed (given, male bank) + ag (fixed connector token) + Khemidou (parent, male/parent bank)
Tamagit ult Bay
Tamagit (given, female bank) + ult (fixed connector token) + Bay (parent, male/parent bank)
Mohammed ag Salla
Mohammed (given, male bank) + ag (fixed connector token) + Salla (parent, male/parent bank)
Naming notes
The connectors ag and ult are fixed tokens in the templates, kept lowercase between the two capitalized name tokens (Mohammed ag Salla, Tioueyin ult Uray). The parent slot in both patterns pulls from the male/parent bank, while the female given slot uses its own bank. Region label: Tuareg, the Sahara across Mali, Niger, Algeria and Libya. The male/parent bank of 115 is the larger pool.
Questions about tuareg names
- How is a Tuareg name assembled?
- A given token and a parent token are joined by a fixed connector: male names use ag between two names from the male/parent bank, and female names use ult between a female given and a parent name.
- Should I capitalize ag and ult?
- No. They are fixed connector tokens in the template, kept lowercase between the two capitalized name tokens, as in Tamagit ult Bay.
- Which banks feed the patterns?
- A 115-entry bank fills the male given slot and both parent slots, and a 76-entry bank fills the female given slot. Region label: the Sahara across Mali, Niger, Algeria and Libya.