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| <small>[[Chlouvānem|Chl.]]:</small> Līlasuṃghāṇi ; Līlasuṃghānyūs<br/><small>Nan.:</small> Lỹlahulaṇũ ; Lỹlĩ

'''Līlasuṃghāṇa''' ("[place of] singing ''nāmñē'' cubs"; [[Chlouvānem]] pronunciation: [ˌɴ̆ʲiːɴ̆asũˈgʱaːɳa]; vernacular Līlasuṃghāṇi: ''Lỹlahulã'' [ɴ̆ɨ̃ɴ̆ãhũˈɴ̆ã]; popularly shortened to ''Līlah'' [ˈɴ̆ʲiːɴ̆aɦ]) is the capital of the [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|Chlouvānem Inquisition]], the holy city of the ''[[Verse:Yunyalīlta|Yunyalīlta]]'', an ''eparchy'' (Chl.: ''ṭūmma'') within the diocese of ''Nanašīrama'', which it is also the episcopal seat of, and the largest city on [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]], even though it is not, administratively, a single city.

Līlasuṃghāṇa lies on the southeastern shore of Lūlunīkam Lake (an inlet of the Jahībušanī sea) in the Jade Coast, with most of the eparchy's area extending south along the southern branch of the Lake, formed by the clearwater Lanamilūki river coming from the wetlands and [[w:Várzea forest|várzeas]] of Talæñoya. Most of the area where the present-day core districts of Līlasuṃghāṇa lie were formerly a swampland where the Ēmīlumi river ("river of tigers"), the Hanaiyami river ("cocoa river"), and the Rajālyāti river ("silver-black river") - all three blackwater - reach Lūlunīkam lake. This former swamp, nestled between low forested hills and the shore, was mostly drained through centuries and is now one of the most densely populated pieces of land on Calémere. Despite lying just south of the 15th parallel north, Līlasuṃghāṇa has an equatorial rainforest climate with constant rainfall throughout the year and no distinct seasons.

The eparchy of Līlasuṃghāṇa, at the 3872 (6422₁₀) census, had a population of 9Ɛ.42.535 <small>(29,698,169₁₀)</small> people. The Līlasuṃghāṇa metropolitan area is the second-largest in the world (after the polycentric conurbation of eastern Hachitama diocese) and extends into neighboring parts of Nanašīrama and also the dioceses of Talæñoya to the south as well as Lgraṃñælihaikā and Kāṃradeša across the lake.

The Laifutaši language, which was spoken in pre-Yunyalīlti times in the area and greatly influenced Chlouvānem (and also some words of the local vernacular not present in standard Chlouvānem), has left its trace in many toponyms in the area: lake ''Lūlunīkam''; the rivers ''Lanamilūki'', ''Hanaiyami'', and ''Rajālyāti''; the diocese of ''Nanašīrama'' itself, and obviously most names of districts (such as ''Himakǣta'', ''Hājurvānim'', ''Sarālilyāniah'', or the omnipresent ''-dimvā'' ending).

An inhabitant of the city is referred to as ''Līlasuṃghāṇi'' or, more formally, ''Līlasuṃghānyūs''. In the vernacular, the demonym is ''Lỹlahulaṇũ'' [ɴ̆ɨ̃ɴ̆ãhũɴ̆ãˈɳũ]. The vernacular-derived form ''Lỹlĩ'' [ɴ̆ɨ̃ˈɴ̆ĩ], rendered as ''Lilīh'' in Chlouvānem, is commonly used both in the vernacular and in Chlouvānem, albeit only informally.

* ''lileni camimarta'' — World's Capital

The area around Lūlunīkam lake, including the location of present-day Līlasuṃghāṇa, has been inhabited for millennia by tribes speaking languages such as Laifutaši or Old Kāṃradeši. In the early part of the First Era, this area was outside the realms of the Kūṣṛmāthi civilization but in its sphere of influence. About halfway through the Era, Lahob-speaking tribes (the Ur-Chlouvānem) settled in the area, finishing their long migration journey across the whole continent and started settling together with the local people, with common intermixing.

While for many centuries there were various settlements in the swamplands and by the hills of today's Līlasuṃghāṇa, the founding of the city itself happened in 4426 (268ᘔ₁₂) by order of Great Inquisitor Kahērimaili ga Banditiāvi ''Dalaigana'', aiming to build the holiest city the world had ever seen. The center of this settlement was on a bigger hammock in the swamp, not far from the Hanaiyami river and about three kilometers upstream from the lakeside - today's Kahērimaila ("clear water") district, named after the founding Great Inquisitor's regnal name. The only access to the early city was from the Hanaiyami river, and a smaller settlement was built at its mouth, functioning as a gate for the city - this area has been later remodelled by land reclamation and it is now the Janaimarta ("port city") district; many foundation-era buildings can however be seen in the neighboring Nājādimvā district, in the Hanaiyami ga maiti memāyi jarmān (Hanaiyami River Mouth Park), and by the Saṃryojyam lakeshore.

* On the hillier shores of Lūlunīkam Lake, south of the central part there are many small villages detached from the main urban tissue, mostly with the layout of older fishing villages. Some of them are still home to a few fishermen or descendants of fishermen's families which actually own the houses they live in (something very rare in the Inquisition), and some of those villages are more upper-class than other areas of the city as houses there have been assigned to artists or scientists. Malįihālia, one of those villages, is the birthplace of incumbent Great Inquisitor Hæliyǣšāvi Dhṛṣṭāvāyah ''Lairē'', descendant of an old fisherman family<ref>However, no direct-descent relative of the incumbent Great Inquisitor has been a fisherman in the last three generations.</ref>.

==Līlasuṃghāṇi Vernacular==

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