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The Chlouvānem informal name (''laltihaloe'', from ''lalteh'' (friend) and ''haloe'' (name)) is the form of the given name used in many particularly informal settings. As with all things informal in the Chlouvānem-speaking world, there is no uniform rule because they are deeply influenced by the local vernacular and, more often than not, they are never even used when speaking Chlouvānem as such kind of conversations may often be exclusively in the vernacular.<br/>However, there is a simple pattern that can be used in order to derive pan-Inquisitiorial informal names from given names: either the first or the stressed syllable of the name is taken, with optional vowel changes (usually ''a'' to ''æ'', ''æ'' and ''ai'' to ''e'', ''e'' to ''i'', and often ''o'' to either ''a'' or ''u''), and ''-ī'' for female informal names or ''-em'' for male ones. Female names often shift post-tonic velars, ''h'', or ''s'', to palatals.<br/>As different syllables may be taken, there are even for this pattern different possibilities. Some examples (usually, the more common a name is and the more informal forms it has):

: ''Martayinām'' [ˌmaˤ.ta.(j)iˈnaːm] → ''Mærī'', ''Mætī'', ''Matī'', ''Næmī'', ''Nāmī''

: ''Mæmihūmya'' [ˌmɛ.mʲiˈɦuː.mja] → ''Memī'', ''Hūmī'', ''Mæmī''

: ''Kælidañca'' [ˌkɛ.ɴ̆iˈdaɲ.c͡ɕa] → ''Kelī'', ''Kælī'', ''Dæñī'', ''Dañī''

: ''Kāltarvān'' [ˌkaːɴ̆.taɐ̯ˈʋãː] → ''Kālem'', ''Kælem'', ''Vānem'', ''Vænem'', ''Kāltem''

: ''Khālbayān'' [ˌkʰaːɴ̆.baˈjãː] → ''Khælem'', ''Khālem'', ''Yænem'', ''Yānem''

: ''Læhimausa'' [ˌɴ̆ɛ.ɦiˈmaʊ̯.sa] → ''Læšī'', ''Læhī'', ''Lešī'', ''Maušī'', ''Mūšī'', ''Mūsī''