short; Ethnologue code: ISO 639-3: bqj), its speakers and its varieties. We also discuss aspects of the contact situation of the Eegimaa language. This is important, because as we will show in § 6 below, some of the Eegimaa death prevention names and child-bearing names are given to Eegimaa people from other communities. Eegimaa is a Jóola language spoken in the Basse Casamance area of Southern Senegal by a population estimated to be between 7,000 (Bassène, 2007) and 11,200 speakers (Lewis, Simons, & Fennig, 2014). Jóola languages are classified as members of Sapir’s (1971) BAK group of Atlantic languages of the Niger Congo language phylum. Speakers of these languages are found in the Gambia, in the former Casamance region of Southern Senegal and in Guinea Bissau. The map