L’impact des déviances phonétiques et phonologiques sur la traduction orthographique des noms mundang

Names are indexical markers of sociocultural identify through which individuals can be singled out or identified in society. The origin of names is cultural, anthropological and historical. Names embody the customs and traditions of the people of a given locality. This holds true for the names of the Mundang people that constitute the case study of this research endeavour. The name, apart from being a source of history, also reflects sociocultural realities. While onomastics studies proper names, sociolinguistics enables researchers to study nouns in all dimensions (sociological, anthropological and ethnological). In the 20th century, contacts with other peoples seriously influenced the Mundang culture, which has lost its originality. This observation motivated us to carry a descriptive study of these names in order to shed light on the phonetic and graphological modifications they undergo.