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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.

According to this broad popular definition, many actual recognized ethnicities are simply Chlouvānem. Under official statistics (counting the 949+ different ethnicities, though often grouped in larger groups for practical purposes), 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.

According to this broad popular definition, many actual recognized ethnicities are simply Chlouvānem. Under official statistics (counting the 949+ different ethnicities, though often grouped in larger groups for practical purposes), 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: among themselves, Chlouvānem people recognize four or five major cultural areas: the Plain (incl. the South), the Eastern Chlouvānem (former Toyubeshian area and the Northeast), the Hålvareni or Northerners, the Western Chlouvānem, and, sometimes, the Southern Far Easterners (often culturally grouped with the Plain, but with important Eastern Chlouvānem traits).<br/>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>. Chlouvānem people are quite often defined through the lack of another definition. So, for example, the child of a Skyrdegan mother and a Toyubeshian<ref>Toyubeshians, when referred to as a contemporary ethnicity, is a term for the peoples living in hilly areas of the East, speaking some variety of Modern Toyubeshian and defining themselves as ''lánh Từaobát'' or similar terms. These are '''not''' the historical Toyubeshians (albeit closely related genetically and linguistically), whose kingdoms ruled most of the East before the Chlouvānem.</ref> father would be counted as Skyrdegan-Toyubeshian, but the child of this person and any other person, neither Skyrdegan nor Toyubeshian, will be counted statistically as Chlouvānem for they being the product of the intermixing of three or more ethnicities. No actual "Chlouvānem" person can be considered to have not been born as the result of intermixing, even if this is, for some people, likely to have happened as far as 2500 years ago.<br/>

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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.
-According to this broad popular definition, many actual recognized ethnicities are simply Chlouvānem. Under official statistics (counting the 949+ different ethnicities, though often grouped in larger groups for practical purposes), 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.
+According to this broad popular definition, many actual recognized ethnicities are simply Chlouvānem. Under official statistics (counting the 949+ different ethnicities, though often grouped in larger groups for practical purposes), 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: among themselves, Chlouvānem people recognize four or five major cultural areas: the Plain (incl. the South), the Eastern Chlouvānem (former Toyubeshian area and the Northeast), the Hålvareni or Northerners, the Western Chlouvānem, and, sometimes, the Southern Far Easterners (often culturally grouped with the Plain, but with important Eastern Chlouvānem traits).<br/>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>. Chlouvānem people are quite often defined through the lack of another definition. So, for example, the child of a Skyrdegan mother and a Toyubeshian<ref>Toyubeshians, when referred to as a contemporary ethnicity, is a term for the peoples living in hilly areas of the East, speaking some variety of Modern Toyubeshian and defining themselves as ''lánh Từaobát'' or similar terms. These are '''not''' the historical Toyubeshians (albeit closely related genetically and linguistically), whose kingdoms ruled most of the East before the Chlouvānem.</ref> father would be counted as Skyrdegan-Toyubeshian, but the child of this person and any other person, neither Skyrdegan nor Toyubeshian, will be counted statistically as Chlouvānem for they being the product of the intermixing of three or more ethnicities. No actual "Chlouvānem" person can be considered to have not been born as the result of intermixing, even if this is, for some people, likely to have happened as far as 2500 years ago.<br/>