AHC: Form alternate/new ethnic groups of the world
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Gothic diverged from North Germanic in the 2nd or 3rd century AD and West Germanic around 1st or 2nd century BC which would mean little mutual intelligibly even in the best case, if we mix that with Slavic, Greek and Turkic loanwords, it’s even less understandable, but it likely have a basic vocabulary and grammar which is relative easy for other Germanic people to learn. Of course a Gothic revival may see replacement of non-Germanic loanword with Germanic ones.
(From an RPG setting idea I had)
Novosibirian
Language: Russian
History/Ancestry: In a TL where the sea level is the same, but only about 1/5 of Antarctica is glaciated, Russian colonists, including cossacks, were sent to East Antarctica, founding the city of Novaya Perm and New Siberia, whilst conquering the native Polynesian-descended Antarcticans.
Language: Russian, with Influences of Ukrainian from the Cossacks, and Native Antarctic.
Majority Religion: Russian Orthodox
Cultural groups: East Slavic, Antarctican
Region: OTL East Antarctica
Novosibirian
Language: Russian
History/Ancestry: In a TL where the sea level is the same, but only about 1/5 of Antarctica is glaciated, Russian colonists, including cossacks, were sent to East Antarctica, founding the city of Novaya Perm and New Siberia, whilst conquering the native Polynesian-descended Antarcticans.
Language: Russian, with Influences of Ukrainian from the Cossacks, and Native Antarctic.
Majority Religion: Russian Orthodox
Cultural groups: East Slavic, Antarctican
Region: OTL East Antarctica
Name: Romalanders
Language: Standard Romani (Koine language with Balkan and Vlax elements predominating alongside partial Calo and Carpathian influences)
Religion: Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Sunni Islam, Shaktist Hinduism
Ancestry: South Asians, Persians, Armenians, Turks, Balkanites, Hungarians, Slovaks, Iberians, and more recently Africans
Phenotype: Wide spectrum ranging from European to South Indian/Dravidian
Population: 4,600,000 (400,000 in the diaspora, excluding non-Romalander Romani and Domari)
Distribution: Romaland (OTL Guyana + Trinidad-Tobago + Grenada)
Culture: South Asian, Middle Eastern, Eastern European, Southern European, South American
History: After the devastating Porajmos of the Second World War and near extermination of Europe's Romani population, many Roma intellectuals, believing that the continent which had hosted their ancestors for centuries could no longer guarantee their safety anymore, proposed the creation of a new homeland for their nation where they wouldn't have to life alongside other Europeans. As the British government approved turned the Mandate for Palestine into the new Jewish homeland, Israel, so did the colonies of Guyana, Trinidad-Tobago, and Grenada become the new Romani homeland, Romaland (the proposal to name it Romanistan was rejected by its first president, Gheorghe A. Lăzăreanu-Lăzurică), on April 8, 1950. The reasoning behind choosing those Caribbean colonies as the designated Romani nation-state was that they were already home to significant South Asian populations for at least 100 years by then.
Upon the establishment of Romaland as a country and its admission into the United Nations, strict anti-miscegenation laws were established, prohibiting intermarriage between Romani and Africans, although they were allowed to marry former South Asian indentured servants due to their own ancestral origin from South Asia. Paying homage to the Indian heritage of its people, Romaland aligned itself with India by becoming a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961, being the organization's only representative from the Americas other than Cuba. Despite being nominally a liberal democracy for just over the first two decades of its existence, it unfortunately fell to a military dictatorship in 1972 under General Žarko Jovanović (who interestingly enough, wrote the country's national anthem), who would rule with an iron fist until his death in 1985, being succeeded by his close associate, Colonel Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia. The latter was deposed in 1999 by the mayor of the capital city New Kannauj (Georgetown renamed), Flórián Farkas, who proclaimed a de jure "constitutional" (de facto absolute) monarchy by declaring himself "King of the Gypsies". His despotic rule, and in turn 46 years of national tyranny, would finally come to an end in 2008 with the global financial crisis forced him to resign and restore the democratic process.
Ever since then, Romaland has become one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America in the Caribbean, with rapidly expanding foreign investment and tourism driving its relatively quick GDP growth. The anti-miscegenation laws were lifted, and Africans were recognized as a national minority with the same status that Amerindians, Portuguese, and Chinese had since Romaland’s founding. The country is classified as an upper middle income economy, albeit with considerably visible inequality among the people. Unfortunately, Romaland doesn't have the high level of development that Israel has in the present, making it unattractive for the remaining Roma in Europe to immigrate to.
The Romalanders, as a people, are mainly descended from the Roma who immigrated to Romaland in the latter half of the 20th century, in two waves; first in the 1950s and 1960s during the initial settlement of the country from their original host nations in Eastern Europe, and second following the fall of the Iron Curtain, when a mass migration of economically troubled job seekers sought new lives with their ethnic kin. The Roma immigrants have intermarried with the well-established colonial-era South Asian society (Tamils, Punjabis, Gujaratis, Marathis, Bengalis, etc.), and Caribbean Hindustani vocabulary gradually seeped into the speech of Standard Romani. And more recently, mixed marriages with Africans have been on the rise, following the repeal of anti-miscegenation laws, adding Sub-Saharan African DNA into the diverse Romalander gene pool. Romalanders pride themselves on being a "chameleon nation" and are truly a cultural intersection between continents.
Language: Standard Romani (Koine language with Balkan and Vlax elements predominating alongside partial Calo and Carpathian influences)
Religion: Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Sunni Islam, Shaktist Hinduism
Ancestry: South Asians, Persians, Armenians, Turks, Balkanites, Hungarians, Slovaks, Iberians, and more recently Africans
Phenotype: Wide spectrum ranging from European to South Indian/Dravidian
Population: 4,600,000 (400,000 in the diaspora, excluding non-Romalander Romani and Domari)
Distribution: Romaland (OTL Guyana + Trinidad-Tobago + Grenada)
Culture: South Asian, Middle Eastern, Eastern European, Southern European, South American
History: After the devastating Porajmos of the Second World War and near extermination of Europe's Romani population, many Roma intellectuals, believing that the continent which had hosted their ancestors for centuries could no longer guarantee their safety anymore, proposed the creation of a new homeland for their nation where they wouldn't have to life alongside other Europeans. As the British government approved turned the Mandate for Palestine into the new Jewish homeland, Israel, so did the colonies of Guyana, Trinidad-Tobago, and Grenada become the new Romani homeland, Romaland (the proposal to name it Romanistan was rejected by its first president, Gheorghe A. Lăzăreanu-Lăzurică), on April 8, 1950. The reasoning behind choosing those Caribbean colonies as the designated Romani nation-state was that they were already home to significant South Asian populations for at least 100 years by then.
Upon the establishment of Romaland as a country and its admission into the United Nations, strict anti-miscegenation laws were established, prohibiting intermarriage between Romani and Africans, although they were allowed to marry former South Asian indentured servants due to their own ancestral origin from South Asia. Paying homage to the Indian heritage of its people, Romaland aligned itself with India by becoming a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961, being the organization's only representative from the Americas other than Cuba. Despite being nominally a liberal democracy for just over the first two decades of its existence, it unfortunately fell to a military dictatorship in 1972 under General Žarko Jovanović (who interestingly enough, wrote the country's national anthem), who would rule with an iron fist until his death in 1985, being succeeded by his close associate, Colonel Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia. The latter was deposed in 1999 by the mayor of the capital city New Kannauj (Georgetown renamed), Flórián Farkas, who proclaimed a de jure "constitutional" (de facto absolute) monarchy by declaring himself "King of the Gypsies". His despotic rule, and in turn 46 years of national tyranny, would finally come to an end in 2008 with the global financial crisis forced him to resign and restore the democratic process.
Ever since then, Romaland has become one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America in the Caribbean, with rapidly expanding foreign investment and tourism driving its relatively quick GDP growth. The anti-miscegenation laws were lifted, and Africans were recognized as a national minority with the same status that Amerindians, Portuguese, and Chinese had since Romaland’s founding. The country is classified as an upper middle income economy, albeit with considerably visible inequality among the people. Unfortunately, Romaland doesn't have the high level of development that Israel has in the present, making it unattractive for the remaining Roma in Europe to immigrate to.
The Romalanders, as a people, are mainly descended from the Roma who immigrated to Romaland in the latter half of the 20th century, in two waves; first in the 1950s and 1960s during the initial settlement of the country from their original host nations in Eastern Europe, and second following the fall of the Iron Curtain, when a mass migration of economically troubled job seekers sought new lives with their ethnic kin. The Roma immigrants have intermarried with the well-established colonial-era South Asian society (Tamils, Punjabis, Gujaratis, Marathis, Bengalis, etc.), and Caribbean Hindustani vocabulary gradually seeped into the speech of Standard Romani. And more recently, mixed marriages with Africans have been on the rise, following the repeal of anti-miscegenation laws, adding Sub-Saharan African DNA into the diverse Romalander gene pool. Romalanders pride themselves on being a "chameleon nation" and are truly a cultural intersection between continents.