Key players originally devised on this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...ernate-new-ethnic-groups-of-the-world.459094/
Affiliate nationalities and ethnic groups by the present time in this ATL:
Oriental Persian
Nationalities
Hvatanese
Language: Scytho-Khotanese (a.k.a. Sakan) with Tocharian, Turkic, Tunguskic and East Asian linguistic influences. Called Hvatanese and classified as an Indo-Iranian, East Persian Language.
Ancestry: A mix of Scythian and Tocharian ancestries which migrated eastward during the time of the Khotanese Empire which ruled China from c.250 AD to c.600. Intermixed with Mongol, Jurchen and Korean bloodlines.
Appearance: Inheritors of the fair hair and eye colours of they're Scythian/Tocharian ancestors with more Asiatic traits manifesting in epicanthal folds and neotenous features. Taller than most East Asians.
Religion: Predominantly Vajrayana Buddhism of a similar stand to that practised in Mongolia and Tibet. Some unique Scythian folk elements owning to Indo-Iranian paganism.
Culture: Historically diverse with a cosmopolitan settled culture developing in Southern Hvatna (Manchuria) during the mid 1st Millennium AD alongside continued nomadic pastoralism on the Western plains and a maritime culture originating in the Amur Basin.
Space: Northeast Asia, north of Korea, occupying all of OTL Manchuria (including Outer Manchuria) which is called Hvatna in ATL. Extensive historical migration and settlement to Sakhalin, Northern Japan, Korea, the Kurils and Kamchatka.
Sacnese
Language: Sacnese, an East Persian language related to Hvatnese with Scythian and Tocharian influences.
Ancestry: The same Aryan nomads that the Hvatnese are descended from, conquerors of the Khotanese Empire in the 200's AD
Religion: Vajrayana Buddhism with Aryan pagan influences.
Culture: A rich heritage as horsemen, mercenaries and traders with significant affinities to the East Hvatnese.
Space: The region of the historical kingdom of Sacu within the Chinese regions of Gansu and Northern Qinghai. Scattered settlement across Northern China.
Hybrid Nationalities
Hatemish/Datemish
Language: Hatemishi is a variant of Hvatnese heavily influenced by the Ainu/Emishi language and Japanese. Today most are Japanese speakers.
Ancestry: West Hvatnese raiders and settlers populated the lands of the Ainu from the 8th century AD onward with a large second wave of settlement in the 13th century. Large scale assimilation of the Ainu occurred during this time.
Religion: Folk religion influenced by Aryan and Ainu Shamanistic Pagan beliefs and Vajrayana Buddhism.
Culture: Now heavily diluted by modern Japanese culture outside rural settlements in Ezo and Tohoku. A cultural revival is underway and some Hatemish have preserved they're distinctive aesthetic traits, reddish hair and blue-green eyes (rare).
Region: Historical zone of Ainu settlement across Northern Japan, Sakhalin, the Kurils and Kamchatka. Live mostly in areas administered by Hvatna, Japan and Russia.
Hat-sam
Language: Various disparate Korean dialects influenced by Hvatnese. In Northern Korea, near the Hvatnese, small communities still speak Hvatnese itself.
Ancestry: Dependent on where they live. Northern Hat-sam are mostly descended from Hvatnese who migrated from the north via land while Southern, Coastal and Jeju Hat-sam are descended from maritime settlers from West Hvatna.
Religion: Vajrayana Buddhism.
Culture: Like the Hatemish, heavily diluted by modern influence, this time from Korea. Experienced suppression in the north within the DPRK (1948-1996) followed by a period of revival. Look distinctly tall and fair with natural red hair common.
Region: Spread around Korea in dispersed cultural areas. Northern mountain region, the Northwest coast, Southern coastal islands and Jeju island.
Hat-min
Language: Hat-min Creole, Hokkien Chinese base with a large number of Hvatnese loanwords.
Ancestry: West Hvatnese settlers of Taiwan and the coasts of Southern China intermixed with Taiwanese aborigines and Cantonese peoples.
Religion: A mix of Vajrayana and Mahayana Buddhism, Folk Religion and later on Christianity.
Culture: Influence by the maritime heritage of the West Hvatnese wayfarers who conducted waves of migrations out of the Amur Basin across the Asian-Pacific Rim. Conspicuously taller and fairer in hair and eye colours than other peoples of the region.
Space: Scattered across Taiwan, Southern Chinese Coast and more recently, South-East Asia.
Historical Cultural Entities
'Redhairs': An Eastern Aryan culture group responsible for spreading Hvatnese and Sacnese settlers and influences across East Asia via land and sea from the 3rd century AD to the 14th century.
Language: Scytho-Khotanese, the parent language to all Oriental-Persian languages. Also referred to as Sakan. Tocharian spoken among Yuzehi groups who were later assimilated into Sakan or Sino-Tibetan communities.
Ancestry: Indo-European Steppe peoples and Tocharians. Related to Indo-Iranians living in Persia and Afghanistan.
Religion: A mixture of Aryan pagan focused around worship of the Goddess Tabiti (Tabitism) and Buddhism of the Mahayana and later Vajrayana sects which they played a crucial role in propagating.
Culture: A nomadic pastoral culture initially focus on horse husbandry, warfare and raiding. Later, following their conquests many became sedentary and cosmopolitan traders and administrators. Amur Basin settlers morphed into a maritime raiding culture.
Region: Far Eastern Steppes. Settled fringes of North China and North-east Asia by 600 AD. Conducted settlement of regions as far apart as Kamchatka and Taiwan after the 8th century and raided and conquered polities as far afield as Java.
Affiliate nationalities and ethnic groups by the present time in this ATL:
Oriental Persian
Nationalities
Hvatanese
Language: Scytho-Khotanese (a.k.a. Sakan) with Tocharian, Turkic, Tunguskic and East Asian linguistic influences. Called Hvatanese and classified as an Indo-Iranian, East Persian Language.
Ancestry: A mix of Scythian and Tocharian ancestries which migrated eastward during the time of the Khotanese Empire which ruled China from c.250 AD to c.600. Intermixed with Mongol, Jurchen and Korean bloodlines.
Appearance: Inheritors of the fair hair and eye colours of they're Scythian/Tocharian ancestors with more Asiatic traits manifesting in epicanthal folds and neotenous features. Taller than most East Asians.
Religion: Predominantly Vajrayana Buddhism of a similar stand to that practised in Mongolia and Tibet. Some unique Scythian folk elements owning to Indo-Iranian paganism.
Culture: Historically diverse with a cosmopolitan settled culture developing in Southern Hvatna (Manchuria) during the mid 1st Millennium AD alongside continued nomadic pastoralism on the Western plains and a maritime culture originating in the Amur Basin.
Space: Northeast Asia, north of Korea, occupying all of OTL Manchuria (including Outer Manchuria) which is called Hvatna in ATL. Extensive historical migration and settlement to Sakhalin, Northern Japan, Korea, the Kurils and Kamchatka.
Sacnese
Language: Sacnese, an East Persian language related to Hvatnese with Scythian and Tocharian influences.
Ancestry: The same Aryan nomads that the Hvatnese are descended from, conquerors of the Khotanese Empire in the 200's AD
Religion: Vajrayana Buddhism with Aryan pagan influences.
Culture: A rich heritage as horsemen, mercenaries and traders with significant affinities to the East Hvatnese.
Space: The region of the historical kingdom of Sacu within the Chinese regions of Gansu and Northern Qinghai. Scattered settlement across Northern China.
Hybrid Nationalities
Hatemish/Datemish
Language: Hatemishi is a variant of Hvatnese heavily influenced by the Ainu/Emishi language and Japanese. Today most are Japanese speakers.
Ancestry: West Hvatnese raiders and settlers populated the lands of the Ainu from the 8th century AD onward with a large second wave of settlement in the 13th century. Large scale assimilation of the Ainu occurred during this time.
Religion: Folk religion influenced by Aryan and Ainu Shamanistic Pagan beliefs and Vajrayana Buddhism.
Culture: Now heavily diluted by modern Japanese culture outside rural settlements in Ezo and Tohoku. A cultural revival is underway and some Hatemish have preserved they're distinctive aesthetic traits, reddish hair and blue-green eyes (rare).
Region: Historical zone of Ainu settlement across Northern Japan, Sakhalin, the Kurils and Kamchatka. Live mostly in areas administered by Hvatna, Japan and Russia.
Hat-sam
Language: Various disparate Korean dialects influenced by Hvatnese. In Northern Korea, near the Hvatnese, small communities still speak Hvatnese itself.
Ancestry: Dependent on where they live. Northern Hat-sam are mostly descended from Hvatnese who migrated from the north via land while Southern, Coastal and Jeju Hat-sam are descended from maritime settlers from West Hvatna.
Religion: Vajrayana Buddhism.
Culture: Like the Hatemish, heavily diluted by modern influence, this time from Korea. Experienced suppression in the north within the DPRK (1948-1996) followed by a period of revival. Look distinctly tall and fair with natural red hair common.
Region: Spread around Korea in dispersed cultural areas. Northern mountain region, the Northwest coast, Southern coastal islands and Jeju island.
Hat-min
Language: Hat-min Creole, Hokkien Chinese base with a large number of Hvatnese loanwords.
Ancestry: West Hvatnese settlers of Taiwan and the coasts of Southern China intermixed with Taiwanese aborigines and Cantonese peoples.
Religion: A mix of Vajrayana and Mahayana Buddhism, Folk Religion and later on Christianity.
Culture: Influence by the maritime heritage of the West Hvatnese wayfarers who conducted waves of migrations out of the Amur Basin across the Asian-Pacific Rim. Conspicuously taller and fairer in hair and eye colours than other peoples of the region.
Space: Scattered across Taiwan, Southern Chinese Coast and more recently, South-East Asia.
Historical Cultural Entities
'Redhairs': An Eastern Aryan culture group responsible for spreading Hvatnese and Sacnese settlers and influences across East Asia via land and sea from the 3rd century AD to the 14th century.
Language: Scytho-Khotanese, the parent language to all Oriental-Persian languages. Also referred to as Sakan. Tocharian spoken among Yuzehi groups who were later assimilated into Sakan or Sino-Tibetan communities.
Ancestry: Indo-European Steppe peoples and Tocharians. Related to Indo-Iranians living in Persia and Afghanistan.
Religion: A mixture of Aryan pagan focused around worship of the Goddess Tabiti (Tabitism) and Buddhism of the Mahayana and later Vajrayana sects which they played a crucial role in propagating.
Culture: A nomadic pastoral culture initially focus on horse husbandry, warfare and raiding. Later, following their conquests many became sedentary and cosmopolitan traders and administrators. Amur Basin settlers morphed into a maritime raiding culture.
Region: Far Eastern Steppes. Settled fringes of North China and North-east Asia by 600 AD. Conducted settlement of regions as far apart as Kamchatka and Taiwan after the 8th century and raided and conquered polities as far afield as Java.
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