Qaaolchouraav

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Qaaolchouraav is a language, the nationality, and the ethicity of Qaaolchoura who speak the Qaaolchourav language or some dialect of as their national language.

Tecnically speaking, "av" is the suffix in the Qaaolchouraav language denoting an adjective based on a place, thus the language would be called "Qaaolchoura'o'av" this would be a bit of a mouthful even to the Qaaolchouraav, and thus through linguistic evolution, the language adjective came to take on the the name of the ethnnicty.

The ethnicity, Qaaolchouraav should technically be "Qaaolchouraôĵ," and the adjective for the ethnicity "Qaaolchour'a'ât" although these too has been altered with frequent use, and phased out.

While intitially Qaaolchouraav refered to the Qaaolchouraav ethnicity, it later came to apply more to citizens of the entire state of Qaaolchoura, once non-Qaaolchouraav speakers were allowed to become citizens under the republic, and now Qaaolchouraav speaking ethinicities are generally referered to by adding an adjective (such as north Qaaolchouraav, littoraline Qaaolchouraav), or even by their region (Ŝôu'l'âo'av).

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