The Aehi (eːhi / æhi)
A kingdom in northern Tzai-Léi, Aehi is a largely mountainous nation bound by sea on three sides and the nation of ______ to the south. The Aehi are eponymous denizens of the kingdom; they are sometimes called the Aehin /eːhin/ or /æhin/ or Aehini [ehiːni / æhiːni]. Aehi is their language (it is also sometimes called Aehinese [ehiːn~ / æhiːn~]).
Naming Traditions
Family names
Family names preceed given names and are usually one syllable. Two syllable family names are rare, but there are a few that are relatively common.
*The vowel-initial of Aehi—the name of the nation and its peopleé—has some variant pronunciation. Whereas /e/ is official, /æ/ and /e/ are in free variation, such that both are essentially standard.
Hence the derived terms Aehin, Aehini, Aehinese are frequently pronounced /æhin/, /æhiːni/, and /æhiːn~/ respectively.
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