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Chlouvānem surnames, regardless of origin, may be '''variable''' or '''invariable''', with about 55% of people having a variable surname. | Chlouvānem surnames, regardless of origin, may be '''variable''' or '''invariable''', with about 55% of people having a variable surname. | ||
Variable surnames have three forms: one for all women in the family, one for married men, and one for unmarried men. | Variable surnames have three forms: one for all women in the family, one for married men, and one for unmarried men. | ||
While typically it is the matronymic-derived surnames (and sometimes the placename-derived ones) that are variable, these suffixes have also been applied to other kinds of surnames - an example being the late singer-songwriter Lālašvātyāvi Kāmilñariāh ''Turabayān'', whose unmarried surname was Kašahitræmīs (his mother was called Šulegāvi Kašahitræša ''Lālašvāti''), of clear Toyubeshian origin (cf. the existing, invariable modern surnames Kašahitah and Kašahitra). | |||
In most areas of the Inquisition, men take their wife's surname (in the married male form, if variable) when they marry - so for example a hypothetical Martayināvi Lantakæmīs ''Kāltarvān'' who marries the hypothetical Namihūlšāvi Huliāyæša ''Lairē'' will be known as Martayināvi Huliāyærās ''Kāltarvān'' after marrying. Their son Dalaigin's full name will be Lairyāvi Huliāyæmīs ''Dalaigin''. | |||
In most areas of the Inquisition, men take their wife's surname (in the married male form, if variable) when they marry - so for example a hypothetical Martayināvi | |||
In some places, this is not the case, and the husband keeps his birth surname, but if it is variable, it will shift to the married form anyway. | In some places, this is not the case, and the husband keeps his birth surname, but if it is variable, it will shift to the married form anyway. | ||