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''Not to be confused with [[w:Ivbiosakon language|Ivbiosakon]] also called Aoma.''

'''Lore''': Aoma and [[Rinap]] form the main languages of South-West-Herookuan family deriving from the ancestral [[Rinapri]]. Aoma is the official spoken and governmental language of Eastern Sceptre with around 15 million speakers, and it has been greatly influenced by the languages of Western Sceptre. The word ''Aoma'' seems to come from the name of eastern area with coastal temples, Kaomaago (''Kaa Omaike Hakoror'', At the Coast of Temples). The language presented here has been stitched together from various very different dialects to unify peoples of the empire so no "true Aoma" has ever existed.

Adulthood is defined as follows:

{{Quote|text= When a high class child reaches the age of 16 (sixteen), a woman reaches the age of 18 (eighteen) or a male reaches the age of 20 (twenty) they are considered being of the age of majority. However, one may acquire a permission to vote by showing maturity through one of the following ways: one year of military service, two years of work since the beginning of apprenticeship, one year after purchasing and keeping a house, one year after the birth of firstborn with the approval of mother's mother. The lowest class and the unclean are not allowed to vote. The following cases form an exception: adult servants who have been freed of labour by their owners, and foreigners who have lived at least two years in the Eastern Empire and shown maturity. Permission to vote is suspended for at least one year, and always for the time of punishment and time in jail after committing a crime. Person may not vote for one year after being possessed.|sign=Kaomaago Bureau of Legislation|source=7th era, 700}}

People of the Coast of Temples give their children a well-chosen first name during the first sunbathing ceremony or name them after the birth hezala (month). The name is two-part and consists of an often nature-themed first name and a family name which is formed by adding ''nyy'' (son), ''muu'' (daughter), ''puu'' (child) or ''pupuu'' (grandchild) to the adult name of the parent or grandparent who is high in the social hierarchy. Great names are deserved for children with high class origins, and are often kept for a whole lifetime. High class owners may also name the children of their servants.

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|+ Common first names

|Amanoora<br/>(two-headed lion)

|Auga<br/>(spellcaster)

|Iwi <br/>(shine)

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|Tomy <br/>(lobster)

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|Ami <br/>(little lion)

|Woly

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|Mala

|Orshu <br/>(snake)

|Reety <br/>(horse)

|Öshu <br/>(raven)

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When a children becomes an adult, and they are allowed to vote for regional members for Sajaazy, they can take a new name at ''Kosa Zuhar'', the Bureau of People (or of Censuses).

The child name might be kept as a second name while they decide (or are helped to decide) which name they wish to carry. Often the names represent something they  

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|Jöca <br/>(meteor)

|Penni <br/>(pen)

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|Hakky <br/>(axe)

In daily, casual usage, diminutives are used to express close relationship and to distinguish between people with same names. Common ways of forming diminutives include:

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