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All country names are singular nouns; demonyms are plural-only nouns of the 1h declension - the singular for each one is <small>GEN</small> + ''lila'' (e.g. ''chlǣvānumi lila'' "a Chlouvānem person"). The genitive plural is also used as an adjective. | All country names are singular nouns; demonyms are plural-only nouns of the 1h declension - the singular for each one is <small>GEN</small> + ''lila'' (e.g. ''chlǣvānumi lila'' "a Chlouvānem person"). The genitive plural is also used as an adjective. | ||
Note how many country names (and their associated demonyms) for major Evandorian countries (plus Spocius) come from Nähäri, the lingua franca in the large area east of Evandor called ''Eppillænan'' (itself a Nähäri borrowing) - which even today is exactly between Evandor and the Inquisition. Only Chlouvānem and Fathanic kept such toponyms for all of these countries - nowadays even languages of the Nähärosphere that had them have shifted to more Evandorian names for all or at least most of them. | Note how many country names (and their associated demonyms) for major Evandorian countries (plus Spocius) come from Nähäri, the lingua franca in the large area east of Evandor called ''Eppillænan'' (itself a Nähäri borrowing) - which even today is exactly between Evandor and the Inquisition. Only Chlouvānem and Fathanic kept such toponyms for all of these countries - nowadays even languages of the Nähärosphere that had them have shifted to more Evandorian names for all or at least most of them.<br/> | ||
Transcontinental countries, in the tables below, are listed in all continents where they occupy a part of the ''mainland''; islands in other continents that are part of the metropolitan territory are only counted if they form a significant (i.e. at least one-fifth) part of the territory and/or population. (Therefore, for example, the Inquisition is not counted as transcontinental despite the Kāyīchah Islands being geographically in Védren). | |||
The ''-tave'' or similar endings in countries of eastern Eppillænan/former Kaiṣamā (all with related languages) are always ''-tava'' in Chlouvānem. | The ''-tave'' or similar endings in countries of eastern Eppillænan/former Kaiṣamā (all with related languages) are always ''-tava'' in Chlouvānem. | ||