Lahob languages: Difference between revisions

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** ''Kenaywanic languages'', spoken mainly in western Sprêny, including ...

** ''Central Lahobic languages'', spoken across the country of Peħlleit and a few communities in the far southwest (Konyzałay peninsula) of Koitrûx; including Łohof-aðá, Sulutamilian Minwan, ...

** ''Łogawenek languages'', spoken in the countries of Ferbêny, most of Alêig, and moribund in far northern ~~Soenyŏ~~-tave; including ...

** ''Łogawenek languages'', spoken in the countries of Ferbêny, most of Alêig, and moribund in far northern Soenjŏ-tave; including ...

** ''Nayzehenyn languages'', spoken mainly across most of central, northern, and eastern Koitrûx, including Yełeshian Lawo, Shershan Lawo, Nahawi, and others;

** ''Tłašnelek languages'', spoken in northwestern Koitrûx as well as some isolated coastal communities further north and west, both on Gurdugal and on the Márusúturonian mainland (as far west as eastern Gathuráni).

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By number of native speakers, they are the second-largest on the planet (just slightly behind the mostly Védrenian [[Yombu-Raina languages]]), however the vast majority of Lahob speakers speak a language belonging to the Chlouvānem branch.

Excluding Chlouvānem (and its daughter languages) with more than 1.4 billion speakers, the other Lahob languages are fairly small by number of speakers, with less than 100,000 speakers collectively: Nordûlaki is the only official language, and the main lingua franca, across the area (except for the areas in ~~Soenyŏ~~-tave), and in the most densely populated areas the vast majority of people are Nordûlaki-speaking descendants of Evandorian colonists. Lahob speakers are mostly clustered in a few villages, rarely exceeding a thousand inhabitants. Central Lahobic and Nayzehenyn are the most spoken among these branches, with the three most spoken languages being, in order, Yełeshian Lawo, Łohof-aðá, and Nahawi. The situation in the Chlouvānem-speaking areas is almost the reverse, as it is the Dachsprache everywhere across the [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|Chlouvānem Inquisition]], in a state of diglossia with thousands of local vernaculars which are either descendants of Chlouvānem itself, Chlouvānem-based creoles, or totally unrelated languages.

Excluding Chlouvānem (and its daughter languages) with more than 1.4 billion speakers, the other Lahob languages are fairly small by number of speakers, with less than 100,000 speakers collectively: Nordûlaki is the only official language, and the main lingua franca, across the area (except for the areas in Soenjŏ-tave), and in the most densely populated areas the vast majority of people are Nordûlaki-speaking descendants of Evandorian colonists. Lahob speakers are mostly clustered in a few villages, rarely exceeding a thousand inhabitants. Central Lahobic and Nayzehenyn are the most spoken among these branches, with the three most spoken languages being, in order, Yełeshian Lawo, Łohof-aðá, and Nahawi. The situation in the Chlouvānem-speaking areas is almost the reverse, as it is the Dachsprache everywhere across the [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|Chlouvānem Inquisition]], in a state of diglossia with thousands of local vernaculars which are either descendants of Chlouvānem itself, Chlouvānem-based creoles, or totally unrelated languages.

==Name==

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* ''Lahob-Imuniguronian'' is an outdated term which was common when the relationship between the Core Lahob languages and Chlouvānem hadn't been proved yet; as acceptance of the theory grew, the term Lahob-Imuniguronian was replaced by the simpler Lahob, that had been used for the Core Lahob languages until then. "Imuniguronian" is the English adaptation of ''imúnigúronen'', the [[Cerian]] term (common to most Western languages) for "Chlouvānem".

Chlouvānem linguists have largely adopted the Nordûlaki term ''Lahou'' as the ethnonym for all Lahob peoples in the form ''lahāvai'', so that the language family is known as ''lahāvumi dældai'' (rarely the form ''lahau ga dældai'' may be found); however, the older term ''hūlisakhāni dældai'', after the mythological ancestral land of Hūlisakhāna mentioned in early Chlouvānem literature may still be heard sometimes. Curiously, the legend of Hūlisakhāna was probably non-Lahob in origin and the term is most likely not of Lahob origin too. The Aem (a Łogawenek language from northern ~~Soenyŏ~~-tave) term ''mye łekyet'', cognate with Łogawe ''ne łenkɛnt'', has been adopted as ethnonym for the non-Chlouvānem Lahob peoples (''myelekyetai''), and therefore ''myelekyetumi dældai'' is the usual term for what is known as Northern Lahob, Core Lahob, or Lahob proper in Western linguistics. Somewhat confusingly, ''kēhamyutei lahāvumi dældai'', which ''literally'' translates as "Northern Lahob languages", is typically used for the Nayzehenyn languages only.

Chlouvānem linguists have largely adopted the Nordûlaki term ''Lahou'' as the ethnonym for all Lahob peoples in the form ''lahāvai'', so that the language family is known as ''lahāvumi dældai'' (rarely the form ''lahau ga dældai'' may be found); however, the older term ''hūlisakhāni dældai'', after the mythological ancestral land of Hūlisakhāna mentioned in early Chlouvānem literature may still be heard sometimes. Curiously, the legend of Hūlisakhāna was probably non-Lahob in origin and the term is most likely not of Lahob origin too. The Aem (a Łogawenek language from northern Soenjŏ-tave) term ''mye łekyet'', cognate with Łogawe ''ne łenkɛnt'', has been adopted as ethnonym for the non-Chlouvānem Lahob peoples (''myelekyetai''), and therefore ''myelekyetumi dældai'' is the usual term for what is known as Northern Lahob, Core Lahob, or Lahob proper in Western linguistics. Somewhat confusingly, ''kēhamyutei lahāvumi dældai'', which ''literally'' translates as "Northern Lahob languages", is typically used for the Nayzehenyn languages only.

===Ethnonyms===

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 ** ''Kenaywanic languages'', spoken mainly in western Sprêny, including ...
 ** ''Central Lahobic languages'', spoken across the country of Peħlleit and a few communities in the far southwest (Konyzałay peninsula) of Koitrûx; including Łohof-aðá, Sulutamilian Minwan, ...
-** ''Łogawenek languages'', spoken in the countries of Ferbêny, most of Alêig, and moribund in far northern Soenyŏ-tave; including ...
+** ''Łogawenek languages'', spoken in the countries of Ferbêny, most of Alêig, and moribund in far northern Soenjŏ-tave; including ...
 ** ''Nayzehenyn languages'', spoken mainly across most of central, northern, and eastern Koitrûx, including Yełeshian Lawo, Shershan Lawo, Nahawi, and others;
 ** ''Tłašnelek languages'', spoken in northwestern Koitrûx as well as some isolated coastal communities further north and west, both on Gurdugal and on the Márusúturonian mainland (as far west as eastern Gathuráni).
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 By number of native speakers, they are the second-largest on the planet (just slightly behind the mostly Védrenian [[Yombu-Raina languages]]), however the vast majority of Lahob speakers speak a language belonging to the Chlouvānem branch.<br/>
-Excluding Chlouvānem (and its daughter languages) with more than 1.4 billion speakers, the other Lahob languages are fairly small by number of speakers, with less than 100,000 speakers collectively: Nordûlaki is the only official language, and the main lingua franca, across the area (except for the areas in Soenyŏ-tave), and in the most densely populated areas the vast majority of people are Nordûlaki-speaking descendants of Evandorian colonists. Lahob speakers are mostly clustered in a few villages, rarely exceeding a thousand inhabitants. Central Lahobic and Nayzehenyn are the most spoken among these branches, with the three most spoken languages being, in order, Yełeshian Lawo, Łohof-aðá, and Nahawi.<br/>The situation in the Chlouvānem-speaking areas is almost the reverse, as it is the Dachsprache everywhere across the [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|Chlouvānem Inquisition]], in a state of diglossia with thousands of local vernaculars which are either descendants of Chlouvānem itself, Chlouvānem-based creoles, or totally unrelated languages.
+Excluding Chlouvānem (and its daughter languages) with more than 1.4 billion speakers, the other Lahob languages are fairly small by number of speakers, with less than 100,000 speakers collectively: Nordûlaki is the only official language, and the main lingua franca, across the area (except for the areas in Soenjŏ-tave), and in the most densely populated areas the vast majority of people are Nordûlaki-speaking descendants of Evandorian colonists. Lahob speakers are mostly clustered in a few villages, rarely exceeding a thousand inhabitants. Central Lahobic and Nayzehenyn are the most spoken among these branches, with the three most spoken languages being, in order, Yełeshian Lawo, Łohof-aðá, and Nahawi.<br/>The situation in the Chlouvānem-speaking areas is almost the reverse, as it is the Dachsprache everywhere across the [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|Chlouvānem Inquisition]], in a state of diglossia with thousands of local vernaculars which are either descendants of Chlouvānem itself, Chlouvānem-based creoles, or totally unrelated languages.
 ==Name==
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 * ''Lahob-Imuniguronian'' is an outdated term which was common when the relationship between the Core Lahob languages and Chlouvānem hadn't been proved yet; as acceptance of the theory grew, the term Lahob-Imuniguronian was replaced by the simpler Lahob, that had been used for the Core Lahob languages until then. "Imuniguronian" is the English adaptation of ''imúnigúronen'', the [[Cerian]] term (common to most Western languages) for "Chlouvānem".
-Chlouvānem linguists have largely adopted the Nordûlaki term ''Lahou'' as the ethnonym for all Lahob peoples in the form ''lahāvai'', so that the language family is known as ''lahāvumi dældai'' (rarely the form ''lahau ga dældai'' may be found); however, the older term ''hūlisakhāni dældai'', after the mythological ancestral land of Hūlisakhāna mentioned in early Chlouvānem literature may still be heard sometimes. Curiously, the legend of Hūlisakhāna was probably non-Lahob in origin and the term is most likely not of Lahob origin too.<br/>The Aem (a Łogawenek language from northern Soenyŏ-tave) term ''mye łekyet'', cognate with Łogawe ''ne łenkɛnt'', has been adopted as ethnonym for the non-Chlouvānem Lahob peoples (''myelekyetai''), and therefore ''myelekyetumi dældai'' is the usual term for what is known as Northern Lahob, Core Lahob, or Lahob proper in Western linguistics. Somewhat confusingly, ''kēhamyutei lahāvumi dældai'', which ''literally'' translates as "Northern Lahob languages", is typically used for the Nayzehenyn languages only.
+Chlouvānem linguists have largely adopted the Nordûlaki term ''Lahou'' as the ethnonym for all Lahob peoples in the form ''lahāvai'', so that the language family is known as ''lahāvumi dældai'' (rarely the form ''lahau ga dældai'' may be found); however, the older term ''hūlisakhāni dældai'', after the mythological ancestral land of Hūlisakhāna mentioned in early Chlouvānem literature may still be heard sometimes. Curiously, the legend of Hūlisakhāna was probably non-Lahob in origin and the term is most likely not of Lahob origin too.<br/>The Aem (a Łogawenek language from northern Soenjŏ-tave) term ''mye łekyet'', cognate with Łogawe ''ne łenkɛnt'', has been adopted as ethnonym for the non-Chlouvānem Lahob peoples (''myelekyetai''), and therefore ''myelekyetumi dældai'' is the usual term for what is known as Northern Lahob, Core Lahob, or Lahob proper in Western linguistics. Somewhat confusingly, ''kēhamyutei lahāvumi dældai'', which ''literally'' translates as "Northern Lahob languages", is typically used for the Nayzehenyn languages only.
 ===Ethnonyms===