You know that today, there are only 60 speakers of Manchu today? Well your mission is to create a POD (whether it's before or after 1900) that makes the Manchu language still widespread in their homeland.
You know that today, there are only 60 speakers of Manchu today? Well your mission is to create a POD (whether it's before or after 1900) that makes the Manchu language still widespread in their homeland.
Manchu was still spoken by a lot of people circa 1800's. You have to stop the flood of Chinese migrants to Manchuria that happened in the late 1800's. I'm not quite sure how to do that.
Actually at least one language of the manchu familly still live, perhaps moribondly...
Manchu was still spoken by a lot of people circa 1800's. You have to stop the flood of Chinese migrants to Manchuria that happened in the late 1800's. I'm not quite sure how to do that.
Maybe have a Meiji Restoration equivalent occur in Japan in the 1860s, and have Japan begin its empire-building earlier. This might have created a scenario where Japan takes Korea and Manchuria becomes a Russian client state after a terrible Chinese defeat at the hands of a Russo-Japanese coalition. Basically, you need an independent, or at least non-Chinese ruled Manchuria before the waves of Han immigrants start arriving.