Chlouvānem/Lexicon: Difference between revisions

Note that there is a very common term, '''yacvān''', which is often presented in textbooks for Chlouvānem as a foreign language as the translation for "Evandor". However, ''yacvān'' more properly refers to Western countries as a cultural concept: while the Western world is basically synonymous with Evandorian-based civilization<ref>All ''contemporary'' Calémerian societies part of global civilization are considered to belong to one of six large civilization groups: Evandorian-based (Evandor, most of Púríton and Queáten, northern Ceránento), hybrid Evandorian-native (southern Ceránento, Fárásen, Ovítioná, most of Védren, the Nâdja area, the southern coast of the Carpan Sea, small parts of Púríton and Queáten), the Spocian world (northern Védren; more or less Evandorian influence is present depending on the area), the Chlouvānem world (including the Brono-Fathanic and Qualdomelic cultures), the Skyrdegan world, and a small series of modern day hybrids of native customs and Yunyalīlti communism (the Kenengyry area) and Evandorian-native-Yunyalīlti communist (parts of eastern Védren).</ref>, the term also refers to the former colonies of Evandorian countries in Púríton, northern Ceránento, and Queáten (less so for those of the other continents, which had a different colonization history). Until the Nāɂahilūmi era conquests, all of Vīṭadælteh was considered part of ''yacvān'', as was the Spocian world until the early Kaiṣamā era.<br/>It is interesting to note the Wanderwort origin of the word ''yacvān'', ultimately deriving from [[Íscégon]] ''íscégunús'' through Old [[Spocian]] ''yičkegŋuw'' and the [[Yombu-Raina languages|Raina languages]]; Spocian lent the term to other languages of Védren, so that a similar term denoting Evandorians (or more broadly Westerners)<ref>Chlouvānem took ''yacvān'' as the name of the concept and not of Westerners, for which it uses the derivation ''yacvānyūs'', which, as all terms denoting people using that suffix, is pluralizable (pl. ''yacvānyaus'').</ref>, and/or their lands, is also found across nearly all of Védren as well as the Dabuke lands and many vernaculars of the Western Inquisition.