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The majority of people in Quetzenkel speak Quetzeni, a language native to the country. There was no one Quetzeni language prior to the 19th century; the reforms that created primogeniture and the All-Tribal Assembly necessitated the formation of a single language. The process of unifying the various dialects into a mutually-recognizable language was not complete until 1850 after years of work, and it took decades more for the so-called All-Tribal language to enter common parlance, though it finally came into common and official use by the 1910s. Some non-conforming dialects remain in use, especially in rural parts of the country. In the southern third of the country, Hieratic Varshani is the majority language due to the proximity and demographic dominance of Varshani individuals near the border. Efforts to bring the Varshani language - which is similar and related to Quetzeni - into the All-Tribal language were proposed and failed at multiple times during the 20th century, partly due to an unwillingness for the Varshani to abandon their heritage.

The majority religion in Quetzenkel is [[M'acunism]], though the official religion of the Kingdom is [[Catholic Church|Catholic]]ism, which occupies a sizable minority place in the country. The indigenous M'acunist faith saw multiple attempts for unification, standardization, and reform, but unlike the matter of language, reform to the religion could not be agreed upon. The inconsistencies between regional varieties - and continued debates regarding the issue of Kānenaka - lead to successful missionary efforts in the northern, coastal parts of the country during the era of the treaty ports. Some cultural observers have placed the native Quetzeni varieties of M'acunism on an "endangered indigenous traditions" list, and some have begun to flock to Quetzenkel to record the local traditions and faiths of the indigenous people for historical record. Catholicism is the majority religion in some northern coastal enclaves, especially the former treaty ports which have large populations. During the [[Second Great War]], there was an effort to simultaneously reform the indigenous faith and stamp out Catholicism by integrating it into a national reformed syncretic faith, but this effort lead to revolts in the northern parts of the country and the effort was abandoned. In the southern part of the country - and especially territories taken from [[Varshan]] - [[Arzalism]] is the majority faith, owing not only to the Varshani population there but also to local converts away from the M'acunist faith. As human sacrifice is illegal in Quetzenkel, and has been for as long as the country has existed, the Arzalists were traditionally required to perform "blood pilgrimages" south to Varshan in order to practice their sacrifices. Following the [[Final War of the Deluge]], [[Orthodox Arzalism]] is banned in the country. Most of the Arzalists in the country, as of [[2033]], professed to either believe in [[State Arzalism]] or other variants of Arzalism. Cultural observers have noted a large delegitimization of Arzalism in Quetzen life, and some project that the Arzalist minority in the country will likely transition to Catholicism or irreligion within two generations.