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* ''[2] mæn yajulųu ?'' - Where are you from? | * ''[2] mæn yajulųu ?'' - Where are you from? | ||
* ''lili mæn līlasuṃghāṇų : nanašīramų : murkadhānāvyų'' - I'm from Līlasuṃghāṇa, Nanašīrama, the Chlouvānem Inquisition. | * ''lili mæn līlasuṃghāṇų : nanašīramų : murkadhānāvyų'' - I'm from Līlasuṃghāṇa, Nanašīrama, the Chlouvānem Inquisition. | ||
===Age== | |||
Chlouvānem people do not express age by counting the years that have passed, but by counting which year someone is in. Thus, a person who we'd say is 20 years old is, for a Chlouvānem, in its 21st year of life. | |||
* ''[2] mæn yananū heirah fliven?'' - How old are you? (lit. *which year does go by you?) | |||
* ''lili mæn [ordinal] fliven'' - I'm ... years old. | |||
** ''lili mæn māmitītyende fliven'' - I'm 19 years old (lit. the 20th (18<sub>12</sub>th goes by me) | |||
** ''lili mæn pāmvimāminde fliven'' - I'm 35 years old (lit. the 36th (30<sub>12</sub>th goes by me) | |||
===Some countries and languages of Earth=== | ===Some countries and languages of Earth=== | ||