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==Names== | ==Names== | ||
==Chlouvānem ethnicity== | ==Chlouvānem ethnicity== | ||
The ethnic definition of ''Chlouvānem'' is very broad: popular usage, converted into a legal definition, defines as Chlouvānem everyone who: | |||
* is a follower of the Yunyalīlta; | |||
* is part of a cultural group entirely based on Yunyalīlti practices of Chlouvānem tradition, or has been considerably influenced by it (inherently linked with being Yunyalīlti believers); | |||
* is part of a cultural group linguistically in a state of diglossia with a local, regional “word” (bhælāmaiva<ref>Broad legal term that encompasses all regional languages in the Inquisition, whether daughter languages of Chlouvānem or not.</ref>) and Classical Chlouvānem, the latter inherently tying said cultural group to all other Yunyalīlti ones with similar characteristics. | |||
Being a follower of the Yunyalīlta is, in most cases, enough to make the other two points true, and inside the borders of the Inquisition that’s almost always the case; in fact all Yunyalīlti who are not originary of either Brono, Fathan, Ikalurilut (countries with overwhelming Yunyalīlti religious majority), of Greater Skyrdagor (where about a quarter of the population is Yunyalīlti, up to 54% in the country of Goryan), or of a few other traditional minorities around the world (most notably Holenagic Yunyalīlti) and live in the Inquisition are Chlouvānem.<br/> | |||
In fact, during the reign of Great Inquisitor Nāʔahilūma, no such distinction was included in censuses, as the only possible distinction to be done among humans was either Yunyalīlti or heretic. | |||
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 Great Prophet of the Yunyalīlta, and the language she spoke the most during her predication. | |||
===Demographics=== | |||
Due to this extremely broad definition of ethnicity and due to the governmental policies extremely hostile towards non-Yunyalīlti, the Chlouvānem Inquisition is unique for its size and population as 98% of the population 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. | |||
That 2% of non-Chlouvānems is mostly due to two factors: | |||
* Titular ethnicities of “ethnic dioceses”, a few dioceses where there often is a local indigenous pre-Chlouvānem language with legal recognition there. These titular ethnicities are rather small because, like all other Chlouvānemized peoples, they have interbred with Chlouvānems and taken cultural influences, as well as converted to the Yunyalīlta, and the “purest” form of their culture mostly survived in remote valleys or plateaus; in fact, in most ethnic dioceses the local titular ethnicity does not count for more than 10% of the population, with the majority of people having origins in both that ethnicity and in not-better-defined Chlouvānem; | |||
* Some ethnically and linguistically Bronic or Skyrdegan peoples near the borders with Brono and Greater Skyrdagor. | |||
====Immigration==== | |||
Immigrants to the Inquisition mostly come from Dabuke lands in northeastern Védren and western Márusúturon (the latter areas bordering with Chlouvānemized Dabuke lands part of the Inquisition); due to the widespread instability, poverty, and often war in these areas of the world, many displaced people flee these lands and because of geographical proximity the closest “safe” areas are the Western dioceses of the Inquisition. Due to most Dabuke people being animists and to Western Chlouvānem culture being born as a hybrid between “mainstream” (or Plains) Chlouvānem and the former Eastern Dabuke cultures, they’re often easily converted and integrated into it. | |||
====Skin colour==== | |||
As predictable given the métis origins of the Chlouvānem people and their cultural-based ethnicity, skin colour is fairly unimportant in Chlouvānem society, as it has (even on ID cards) much like the same value as hair or eye colour. Different skin colours are however interesting in their distribution, and often it is a sign of a certain geographical origin. | |||
Calemerian skin colours, in Chlouvānem usage, are grouped in eight major definitions, none of them coming even close to an absolute majority (unless the ''flugasniė'' and ''hailaxniė'' groups are taken as a single one).<br/><small>Small numbers in brackets after the definitions roughly indicate its range in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Luschan%27s_chromatic_scale Von Luschan chromatic scale]. Note that the ''chlebmæxhliniė'' type does not occur on Earth and is therefore not represented there.</small> | |||
* the '''naleimurkaniė''' group (<small>36-34</small>) is the darkest skin colour of all, and in the Inquisition it is typical in the Eastern Islands as well as a few areas in the West and along the southernmost coasts. About 7% of all Chlouvānem belong to this group. | |||
* the '''lallamurkaniė''' group (<small>33-28</small>) is the typical black skin, and is legally the relative majority among Chlouvānem people<ref>In popular usage, the two following groups - ''flugasniė'' and ''hailaxniė'' - are considered a single one and therefore that one is considered majoritary.</ref>, with 28% of the population. It is common all throughout the nation, but from the Plain it increases the further West one goes, up to more than 90% in some of the westernmost dioceses. | |||
* the '''flugasniė''' group (<small>27-23</small>) is the one most people on Calémere frequently associate with Chlouvānem people, as it is the relative majority in nearly all of their heartlands; the mid-high skin colour in this range (<small>24, 25, 26</small>) is probably the most common overall there. It is legally the third-largest, with 24% of all Chlouvānem. | |||
* the '''hailaxniė''' group (<small>18-20</small>) is another stereotypically Chlouvānem-only skin colour, relative majority in many areas of the Plain, in the southern rainforests, and in the East. It is legally the second-largest, with 26% of all Chlouvānem, but popular usage hardly distinguishes it from the ''flugasniė'' group. | |||
* the '''chlebmæxhliniė''' group (<small>off-scale, closest to 18 or 20 but much more yellowish and somewhat greenish</small>) is the rarest of all Calemerian colours, and second rarest in the Inquisition with 2,5% of all people (it is to be noted though that Chlouvānem with this skin colour are the majority of all such Calemerian humans), mostly in the northwestern steppes and deserts - though nowadays nowhere the majority. | |||
* the '''niværeniė''' group (<small>15-17 plus 21 and 22</small>) is the colour of “dark-skinned whites”, not particularly common in the Inquisition as it amounts only to 5% of the population, mainly in the inland West and scattered among major cities in the rest of the nation. | |||
* the '''julkniė''' group (<small>7-9 plus 12-14, though more peachlike</small>) is a light skin colour mostly common in the Northeast and parts of the East, as well as scattered elsewhere; it amounts to 6% of all Chlouvānem. | |||
* the '''vindraniė''' group (''11 and lower'') is the colour of “whites”: despite being fairly common on Calémere it is hardly native to the lands of the Inquisition, apart from the taiga in the far Northeast and the islands off the Northeastern coast; being those historically sparsely populated areas, ancestral people of those areas are few and as such it is the rarest group, amounting to only 1,5% of all Chlouvānem. | |||
==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||
===Climate=== | ===Climate=== | ||