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Where does a father's name go when the name has no family name? (Abiy Ahmed Ali, Ухнаагийн Хүрэлсүх, Бекмырза Чолпонбай уулу) #1253

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Several naming conventions have no inherited family name. The word in the family slot is the father's name (Ethiopia, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan), a chain of parents' names (bin/binti, S/O), or nothing at all (Burma). The parser has two places for such a word, the family field and the patronymic view (R9), and today it does each, depending on the shape:

Input today
Abiy Ahmed Ali middle Ahmed, family Ali
Ухнаагийн Хүрэлсүх given Ухнаагийн, family Хүрэлсүх (FAMILY_FIRST reads all 126 Khural members right)
Бекмырза Чолпонбай уулу family уулу
خالد بن سعد القحطاني patronymic بن سعد القحطاني, family name included
איתמר בן גביר patronymic בן גביר, an inherited surname

The shape question: can a convention say "this position is the father's name"? If it can, does that name fill family (where a caller sorting or matching looks for it), only the patronymic view, or both? The answer fixes what each sub-issue is asking for. For most of them, what's left after it is a pack's order or a marker list.

Sub-issues: #1203 (Ethiopia), #1231 (Burma, no family name at all), #1237 (Mongolia), #1187 (Kyrgyz uulu), #1188 (Kazakh -ұлы written joined), #1155 (a family name after a بن chain), #1210 (a בן surname in the view), #1165 (S/O, D/O, W/O).

What settles it: whether family means "the inherited name" or "the name a list sorts by". If it means the second, the patronymic view decides whether the same word appears in both. #1209 (in the ben/bin/בן umbrella) is the other side of #1210's word.

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