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The '''Lahob languages''' (also '''Lahobic'''; Łaȟ. ''łaȟoḇoši eyšerê'', Tundra Pw. ''ɬakhowašuy duyětuy'', Chl. '' | The '''Lahob languages''' (also '''Lahobic'''; Łaȟ. ''łaȟoḇoši eyšerê'', Tundra Pw. ''ɬakhowašuy duyětuy'', Chl. ''lahūvumi dældai'') are a language family on the planet of [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]]; its Urheimat is in the far northern part of Evandor, where the greatest diversity among them is still found; the most spoken language of the family is however [[Chlouvānem]], spoken (along with its daughter languages) across large areas of Greater Evandor (in the continent of ''Márusúturon'' or ''Mārsūtram''), with [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|its own heartland]] more than 10,000 km away.<br/> | ||
The family takes its name from ''Łaȟoḇeyšer'', language of the ''Łaȟoḇ'' people, the largest and first studied in the Lahob heartlands. | The family takes its name from ''Łaȟoḇeyšer'', language of the ''Łaȟoḇ'' people, the largest and first studied in the Lahob heartlands. | ||
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* *wānəme as ethnonym for e.g. the Bänme, Woŋom, Baan, and the -vānem part in Chlouvānem; also as e.g. ''onom'' (group) in Łaȟoḇeyšer and ''womme'' (village) in Šlokhowdeš. | * *wānəme as ethnonym for e.g. the Bänme, Woŋom, Baan, and the -vānem part in Chlouvānem; also as e.g. ''onom'' (group) in Łaȟoḇeyšer and ''womme'' (village) in Šlokhowdeš. | ||
Names for the proto-language and for the language family in Lahob languages are almost non-existant apart from Chlouvānem, as most of them are native languages of traditional populations (a substantial number being hunter-gatherers), and calques from Western languages (mainly Gathura) are used; in Chlouvānem the family is called '' | Names for the proto-language and for the language family in Lahob languages are almost non-existant apart from Chlouvānem, as most of them are native languages of traditional populations (a substantial number being hunter-gatherers), and calques from Western languages (mainly Gathura) are used; in Chlouvānem the family is called ''Lahūvumi dældai'' and Proto-Lahob is ''Olahūvumi dældā'' — the term ''Lahūvai'' for the Lahob people being a borrowing from Nordûlaki ''Lahû''. | ||
==Common characteristics== | ==Common characteristics== | ||