Ethnic groups

An ethnic group, or ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, society, culture or nation.Ethnicity is often an inherited status based on the society in which one lives. In some cases, it can be adopted if a person moves into another society. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be defined by a shared cultural heritage, ancestry, origin myth, history, homeland, language or dialect, symbolic systems such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing style, art, and physical appearance.
== List of Ethnic Groups ==
=== Fictional Ethnic Groups (from Mappers' nations) ===
==== Zak ====
The Zak term comes from the mixing of the words "Jak" and "Zah" which are the first 3 letters of the english name of the nations where the Zak ethnicity are majority (Jakia and Zaherus)
===== Arfes =====
The Arfes are the Zak peoples of Zaherus, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain, they are related to the ancient Arfe kingdoms and dynasties that ruled all or parts of area of the countries mentioned earlier.
===== Jakians =====
The Jakians are the archaic Arfes, well, at least that's what they say, the Arfss lived in the middle or Arabia, and they used to make colonies in the coast, they always migrated east, but there was a migration to the west in (insert date), though, they didn't settle at all because they ended founding the Eastern side of the Asir Mountains, the second migration wave, a few years later, did cross the Mountains and settle in the place where the (fictional) Drashanmik and Kharjeya rivers, and slowly expanded across the Darki and Agurat streams to the Coast of the Red Sea.
==== Ethnic groups in Nevoya ====
===== Bakhsites =====
Bakhsites (Baakhszaawaanin in Bakhsite language; Janabaaset in Nevoyan language) are an isolated ethnicity which is known to be settled near Baakhjaayo (today's Aden), Psipqrrt (today's Socotra) and Karjalah (Karthala in Grande Comore). Today, Bakhsites in Psipqrrt and Karjalah are assimilated by the Arabs however in Baakhjaayo, Bakhsites are still alive and they speak the Bakhsite language which is an isolated branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, or Nevoyan. They make up the 48% of today's Nevoya. 
===== Nevoyans =====
Nevoyans, Nevians or Nevonians (Niwoalaret in Nevoyan language; Junderpaaknin in Bakhsite language) are Cushitic people who come from today's Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan. They have a significant relation with Somali people. At the 3rd century A.D., Nevoyans settled at today's Nevoya, Southern Hejaz by the sea and Sinai by the land. Nevoyans on Sinai were assimilated by Egyptian people and later, Copticized and Christianized. Today, Nevoyans on Sinai describe themselves as Coptic however nearly 60% of the Coptics near the Bardawil Lake are thought as ancient Nevoyans who came from Sudan, Eritrea or Somalia. Today, Nevoyans on the Arab Peninsula has their own state called Nevoya however they make up the 46% of today's Nevoya, as a minority after the majority people of Bakhsites. However approximately 60-75% of the people in Nevoya speak Nevoyan as their first language and 24-37% of the people knows as an extra language, so Nevoyan is the main language to communicate in the country. 
==== Ethnic groups in Karianka ====
===== Karans =====
===== Karankaites =====
Karankaites (Qaranqajlar in Karankaite language; Karäänkajít in Karanese language) or Turkigs (Turkijler in Karankaite language; Tüget in Karanese language) are a Turkic ethnic group located in the Lakes' Region of Karianka.
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