Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition: Difference between revisions
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In fact, during the reign of Great Inquisitor Nāɂahilūma, no such distinction was included in censuses, as the only possible distinction to be done among humans was either Yunyalīlti or heretic. | In fact, during the reign of Great Inquisitor Nāɂahilūma, no such distinction was included in censuses, as the only possible distinction to be done among humans was either Yunyalīlti or heretic. | ||
According to this broad popular definition, many actual recognized ethnicities are simply Chlouvānem. Under official statistics (counting the 949+ different ethnicities), | According to this broad popular definition, many actual recognized ethnicities are simply Chlouvānem. Under official statistics (counting the 949+ different ethnicities), 84.3% of the population of the Chlouvānem Inquisition is ethnically Chlouvānem; it is to be noted, anyway, that this broad definition allows inside of it extremely large cultural variations, often also shaped by climate and environment and not just because of different cultural substrata. It is to be noted, however, that regions are often heavily multicultural inside and there's a tendency towards cultural fusion, ignited by the deportations (''paṣadimbhanah'', pl. ''-nai'') that were particularly common in the first 60 years of the Inquisition, and continued with the later internal migrations; deportations are still sometimes made, however, in order to avoid overpopulating some areas and to settle and cultivate more some remote areas. | ||
The Chlouvānem ethnicity and culture were historically born through interbreeding of various peoples in prehistoric times, to the point that different ethnicities came to identify as one; there are various theories on why among all of those languages Chlouvānem - the last one to come there chronologically - came to be the dominant one, but most probably there was a religious background, namely that it was the first language of the Chlamiṣvatrā, and the language she spoke the most during her predication<ref>It is however widely thought that the Chlamiṣvatrā spoke a Chlouvānem dialect that was not the one of the majority of people and that came to be Classical Chlouvānem, on the basis of some religious terminology like most notably ''lillamurḍhyā'', which would have been ''lilāmmūrḍhiyā'' (morphemically ''lil-ān-mūg-ḍhiyā'') in the "standard" dialect.</ref>. | The Chlouvānem ethnicity and culture were historically born through interbreeding of various peoples in prehistoric times, to the point that different ethnicities came to identify as one; there are various theories on why among all of those languages Chlouvānem - the last one to come there chronologically - came to be the dominant one, but most probably there was a religious background, namely that it was the first language of the Chlamiṣvatrā, and the language she spoke the most during her predication<ref>It is however widely thought that the Chlamiṣvatrā spoke a Chlouvānem dialect that was not the one of the majority of people and that came to be Classical Chlouvānem, on the basis of some religious terminology like most notably ''lillamurḍhyā'', which would have been ''lilāmmūrḍhiyā'' (morphemically ''lil-ān-mūg-ḍhiyā'') in the "standard" dialect.</ref>. | ||