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====Ethnic dioceses==== | ====Ethnic dioceses==== | ||
A number of dioceses in the Inquisition are '''ethnic dioceses''' (''lailyāvikausire juṃšañāña'', pl. ''lailyāvikausirāhe juṃšañāñai''), home to native, non-Chlouvānem ethnicities. In these dioceses, the languages of the titular ethnicities are co-official in every aspect of public life and members of these ethnicities usually have "land rights" that other ethnicities do not have (for example there are usually substantially faster waiting times for housing allocation for titular ethnicities when compared to ethnic Chlouvānem).<br/>
It should however be noted that in all but one of these dioceses (Tūnambasā), the titular ethnicities are less than half of the population, being as low as | A number of dioceses in the Inquisition are '''ethnic dioceses''' (''lailyāvikausire juṃšañāña'', pl. ''lailyāvikausirāhe juṃšañāñai''), home to native, non-Chlouvānem ethnicities. In these dioceses, the languages of the titular ethnicities are co-official in every aspect of public life and members of these ethnicities usually have "land rights" that other ethnicities do not have (for example there are usually substantially faster waiting times for housing allocation for titular ethnicities when compared to ethnic Chlouvānem).<br/>
It should however be noted that in all but one of these dioceses (Tūnambasā), the titular ethnicities are less than half of the population, being as low as 9% for Hūnakañai in Hūnakañjātia (most ethnic Hūnakañai do live there — but the diocese includes the 10th largest city of the Inquisition, Līlekhaitē, which is predominantly Chlouvānem). With the exceptions of the Bazá (Chl. ''Basā'') in Tūnambasā and the Čathinow (''Cathinūvai'') in Seikamvēyeh, all other titular ethnicities are only native to the territories of the Inquisition. The Bazá, which are the largest group in their ethnic diocese (78%), are also numerically the largest of any non-Chlouvānem titular ethnicity in the Inquisition. | ||
There are 13 ethnic dioceses in the Inquisition: | There are 13 ethnic dioceses in the Inquisition: | ||
* 2 in the Near East (Tumidajātia and | * 2 in the Near East (Tumidajātia and Kotaijātia), <small>plus ''Rǣrajāṇai'' diocese (see below)</small>; | ||
* 3 in the Southern Far East ( | * 3 in the Southern Far East (Hūnakañjātia, Tendukijātia, and Niyobajātia); | ||
* 1 in the East (Nalakhoñjātia); | * 1 in the East (Nalakhoñjātia); | ||
* 4 in the North (Halyanijātia, Kūdavīma, Seikamvēyeh, and Dahelijātia); | * 4 in the North (Halyanijātia, Kūdavīma, Seikamvēyeh, and Dahelijātia); | ||
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The possibility of making Mevikthænai diocese (in the North) the ethnic diocese of the Ogotet' people has been proposed many times on the grounds of it being part of the historical Ogotet' lands. However, so far this has not been approved due to its long current history outside Ogotet' influence (it was Skyrdagor long before it was Chlouvānem) and the fact that Ogotet' people in Mevikthænai do not reach 10% of the population - in fact, most Ogotet' people in the world live in diaspora communities especially on Márusúturon and even in the Ogotet' nation of Ogotethep their number only reaches 30% of the population (most of it is of Skyrdegan or Čathinow origin). | The possibility of making Mevikthænai diocese (in the North) the ethnic diocese of the Ogotet' people has been proposed many times on the grounds of it being part of the historical Ogotet' lands. However, so far this has not been approved due to its long current history outside Ogotet' influence (it was Skyrdagor long before it was Chlouvānem) and the fact that Ogotet' people in Mevikthænai do not reach 10% of the population - in fact, most Ogotet' people in the world live in diaspora communities especially on Márusúturon and even in the Ogotet' nation of Ogotethep their number only reaches 30% of the population (most of it is of Skyrdegan or Čathinow origin). | ||
The diocese of Rǣrajāṇai in the Near East has a somewhat special status, because it has most characteristics of ethnic dioceses but, due to its history, land rights for the native ethnicity do not apply in the whole territory. This is because the diocese was only formed in the Kaiṣamā era as a territory for settling down the ''Rǣrai'' (endonym ''ræ:ærnuk''), a population speaking a Fargulyn language, distantly related to [[Skyrdagor]], which had been itinerant in most of the Plain and the Near East for centuries<ref>Many Rǣrai had already drifted apart, better integrating with the rest of society and settling down in other areas. 79 of the officially recognized ethnicities indigenous to the Inquisition are sometimes grouped ethnographically as "Macro-Rǣrai" (''paṣrǣrai''), and when grouped together they are, after the Chlouvānem, the second-largest ethnicity in the Inquisition overall.</ref>. As the territory they were settled in was already settled, Rǣrai people were mostly settled in newly built towns, including for example the current episcopal seat of the diocese, Reṣṇagærimarta. Rǣrai people are today the majority in the diocese's territory (71%), but most bordering areas have a majority of non-Rǣrai people, some of them having been settled there for a thousand years, and those areas lack land rights for Rǣrai. Similarly, Rǣrajāṇai diocese does not have separate Synods, unlike all ethnic dioceses (except Hūnakañjātia). | |||
====Etymologies of local toponyms==== | ====Etymologies of local toponyms==== | ||