Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition/Līlasuṃghāṇa: Difference between revisions

|+ <big>'''''Līlasuṃghāṇa'''''</big><br/>'''''Lïlasoṃḥåṇ'''''

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

'''Līlasuṃghāṇa''' ("[place of] singing ''nāmñē'' cubs"; [[Chlouvānem]] pronunciation: {{IPA|[ɴ̆iːɴ̆ɐsũgʱäːɳɐ]}}; Līlasuṃghāṇi vernacular: ''Lïlasoṃḥåṇ'' {{IPA|[ɴ̆ɐɪ̯ɴ̆asɵ̃ːˈxɑ̃ʊ̯̃]}}; popularly shortened to <small>(Chl.)</small> ''Līlah'' {{IPA|[ɴ̆iːɴ̆ɐɦ]}} or <small>(vern.)</small> ''Lïleh'' {{IPA|[ˈɴ̆ɐɪ̯ɴ̆ɛ]}}) 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.

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 Šraḍhaṃñælihæka and Kāṃradeša across the lake. Usāṃrātnam sector is the most populated subdivision in the eparchy; the areas typically know as "the center" are Ṣrāvamaila sector, seat of the Inquisitorial Palace, of the Blossoming Temple, and of most central institutions of the Inquisition, and the six sectors encircling it (Lūṣyambādhi, Hūneidauṣa, Nājāmiḍāra, Haleikēlṭah, Saṃryojyam, and Janaimarta).

An inhabitant of the city is referred to as ''Līlasuṃghāṇi'' or, more formally, ''Līlasuṃghānyūs''. In the vernacular, the demonym is ''Lïlasoṃḥæñy'' {{IPA|[ɴ̆ɐɪ̯ɴ̆asɵ̃ːxɛˈɲyː]}}. The vernacular-derived form ''Lïly'' {{IPA|[ɴ̆ɐɪ̯ˈɴ̆yː]}}, rendered as ''Lailī'' or ''Lailyū'' in Chlouvānem, is commonly used both in the vernacular and in Chlouvānem, albeit only informally.

* ''Līlah'' (vern. ''Lïleh''), a shortening which is how the city is usually called in common speech;

* ''junyāmite marta'' (''jyñæmet he mårt'') — the Blossoming City (a reference to its main temple, seat of the Great Inquisitor, the Blossoming Temple (''junyāmiti lārvājuṣa''))

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 Ṣrāvamaili ga Kālomitāvi ''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 Talitanah river and about three kilometers upstream from the lakeside - today's Ṣrāvamaila ("clear water") sector, named after the founding Great Inquisitor's regnal name. The only access to the early city was from the Talitanah 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") sector; many foundation-era buildings can however be seen in the ''talitanah ga maiti memāyi jarmān'' (Talitanah River Mouth Park), part of Saṃryojyam sector, and by the rest of the Saṃryojyam lakeshore. Haleikēlṭah, just opposite the Talitanah from Ṣrāvamaila, became in the following centuries an important merchant quarter.

Other older settlements later integrated in the main area of the city are found everywhere in the eparchy; quite noticeable, ancient, and near the central area, are the former lakeside village of Kānuṣāṭham (part of Lūṣyambādhi sector, northeast of the Inquisitorial Palace) and the "village of Huneidauṣa", today only a small, pedestrian area in the center of the eponymous sector, southeast of the Inquisitorial Palace.

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* On the hillier shores of Lake Lūlunīkam, 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>.

87.3% of residents are ethnically Chlouvānem, with the remainder being made up of many other legally recognized ethnicities. The three largest among those are Bronic (1.3%), Kuyugwazians (1.1%), and people of Eastern Védrenian origin (0.9%). Classical Chlouvānem is the city's most spoken language; 70% of all inhabitants also speak the local vernacular, Līlasuṃghāṇi (''dåṭ lïlasoṃḥæñy'' {{IPA|[ˈdɑʊ̯ʈ ɴ̆ɐɪ̯ɴ̆æsɵ̃ːxɛˈɲyː]}}), a dialect inside the Southern Jade Coast dialect continuum. The most spoken native language excluding these two has been found to be the Western Chlouvānem Creole, spoken by about 4% of people. Among non-Chlouvānem languages, the most spoken include [[Brono-Fathanic|Bronic]], [[Kuyugwazian]], [[Soenjoan]], [[Lenyan]], other Kenengyry languages, and various languages from Eastern Védren.