Humans of Oacca-Seri

**Humans** are perhaps the most diverse species on Oacca-Seri, with many distinct cultures and ethnic groups. Over 300 distinct ethnic groups of humans exist, and over 500 human languages are spoken, though there are about 6 main human language groups spoken across Oacca-Seri, and communication within those groups is generally close enough to get by. Humans and halflings are perhaps the most similar beings, with the halflings falling into the same ethnic groups as humans, differing subtly in their physiology. Halflings generally have just as much a place in Human society as Humans themselves.

The majority of human life on Oacca-Seri can be divided into roughly seven Major ethno-linguistic families, corresponding roughly to major geographical locations. These include the Tupil Peoples, who inhabit the southern regions of Tenoir, the Anadené Peoples, who inhabit northern Tenoir, the Kurak-Nort peoples, who inhabit the part of west Baze above the Ineso Sea, as well as the western portion of Oma, the Kai-Ngyulian peoples, who inhabit the islands surrounding Baze as well as many coastal regions, the Tshansu people, inhabiting mostly Southern Baze, and finally the Omatic peoples, who inhabit the continent of Oma.

## Aureshi

The Aureshi are outliers, not belonging to any ethnolinguistic group. The origin of the Aureshi is not known, and they are rumored to be touched by the gods. The Aureshi people are said to be the most beautiful in existence. They are often of extremely slight build, and their skin is so pale it is nearly translucent. Their hair is almost always white or grey, and their eyes tend to fall anywhere from the color of ivory to the color of the sky. They have long faces, with small features, and are extremely rare, but distinct enough to merit their own ethnic group. They historically have lived on either polar continent or as far north as possible. They most often speak their own language, Aureshi, or the language recognized wherever they live.

## Omatic Peoples

The Omatic peoples are easily the largest ethnic group on Baze, and are wildly diverse. Their languages, incluidng Bantu, Swili, and Tkosa tend to utilize harsh consonants and smooth syllables, as well as agglutination and click consonants. Their script is generally an extended version of the Kurak script, emphasizing straight lines and symmetric letters.

The Omatic peoples are often categorized into one of the five largest Omatic ethnolinguistic groups, including Swana, Omosha, Dhar, Koli, and Tswanti

### Swana

The Swana people are said to be just as beautiful as the Aureshi, and significantly less uncanny. With fuller build and darker skin, they look much more “human” than the Aureshi, so to speak. They historically come from southern Baze but their diaspora exists all across the world. They historically speak Bantu, an Omatic language which emphasizes Click consonants more than any other language.

### Omosha

The Omosha historically live in and below the Oma desert located in central Baze. They historically speak Omota, which has an emphasis on agglunation and literal translations, many of their words can be interpreted just by knowing around 20% of the basic vocabulary. Omota is the most commonly spoken language on Baze.

### Dhar

The Dhar people originate in the northern regions of Oma, but their diaspora extends throughout the entirety of Baze. Though an Omatic ethnic group, they do not use the Omatic script; rather, they use character-based morphemes, made up of a system of radicals. The script is borrrowed both from parts of Ngyulian and Zhyab script, which results in an intricate and beautiful language, that while difficult to learn, is regarded as an important language for both trade and education.

### Koli

The Koli people traditionally inhabit the borders of the Omatic peoples, resulting in a distinctly syncretic language. Their language, Swili, consists of two forms, written, which uses the Kurak script and is very similar to the Swana language, and spoken, which has no corresponding script and sounds very different from many of the other Omatic languages.

### Tswanti

The Tswanti or Swanti speak Tkosa, which is much softer and rounder than many of the other Omatic languages, but is similar enough to Omota to make conversation between the two groups possible. Their culture is traditionally based off of elaborate footwear, which is patterned to reveal information and accomplishments of the wearer.

## Tshansu Peoples

The Tshansu are almost as populous as the Omatic peoples, historically from South Baze. Their languages, while all sharing similar roots and mostly using a logographic writing system, are widely varied, and so are many of the people. In the Tshansu languages, pronunciation is not linked to the written script. Many suspect these people groups composed the Lost Empire, resulting in four main linguistic groups that fall under this category: The Tsha, who inhabit the lowpeaks, the OnLi, the Nauin, and the Ansu.

### Tsha

The tsha people have sharper, flatter features, with darker skin and longer hair than most other Tshansu ethnic groups. Their script is a right to left abugida script, meaning that vowels are notated as a unit consisting of a combination between a vowel and a consonant. The language sounds rather similar to the language of the Anzu people.

### Onli

The Onli are the traditional inhabitants of the East coast of Baze; a relatively diverse group, with a variety of ethnic sub groups depending on location. They historically speak Zhengo, a logographic system in which each syllable corresponds to a word.

### Nauin

The Nauin are a people from the farthest south of South Baze, and the surrounding islands. Their language, Tana-ki, is a syllable-based logographic language, in which each character represents a syllable, and multiple syllables make up each word.

### Ansu

The Ansu people speak Ansu, which is a logographic language without complex rules regarding syllables and words; some characters are one word, other words can be up to four characters long.

## Kai-Ngyulian Peoples

The Kai-Ngyulian are the ethnolinguistic group localized within the area known as the Ngyu islands, as well as the Ka'i coast. The Kai-Ngyulian languages utilize, for the most part, a Kurak script, though many groups in the region did not need written language until contact and trade with the First Kingdom. These languages make frequent use of vowels, as well as the glottal stop, denoted with a " ' " and usually limited to use three times or fewer in a word.

### Moa'li

The Moa'li, which literally translates to children of the coast, are an ethnic group indigenous to the Ka'i coast of Baze. Their language, Moa, utilizes 14 consonants and 10 vowels, denoted in the Kurak script as a,e,i,o,u,ā,ē.ī,ō, and y.

### Ka'ika

The Ka'ika language utilizes the same structure as the Moa language, but is written slightly differently

### Tua

The Tua are another ethnic group, which inhabits the Ngyu islands. Their language makes heavy use of loanwords words from both Ka'ika and Moa'li language, as well as other, smaller indigenous languages.

## Kurak-Nort Peoples

The Kurak-Nort peoples refers to the ethnic groups from the Kurakia region of West Baze, generally located around the Kuran Sea, and the ethnic groups from the North of West Baze. They all share the same script, the Kurak script, and many of their languages share words and concepts, such as gendered words and letters based on pronunciation. (OOC: Kurak corresponds to the Latin script, and these languages represent the Indo-European languages)

### Kurani

The Kurani are an ethnic group native to the area surrounding the Sea of Kura, encompassing both West and South Baze. They speak Kuric, a language relatively similar to Dhar using the Kurak script. Kuric speakers can be found across the Seven Kingdoms, particularly in Eohau, Chkotos, Ellenoir, and Annacyras. Kuric is an Abjad, and contains only 15 consonants.

### Galt

The Galts are an ethnic group native to western Baze. They speak Norin, a language which borrows the Kuric script, as well as rules from both Northan and Enali. Norin is the second most commonly spoken language on the planet, despite having only an average amount of ethnic speakers.

### Northan

The Northan people live on western Baze, and often speak Northan or Old Northan, which utilizes a runic script not dissimilar to many dwarven languages.

### Baltava

The Baltava people inhabit northern Baze, and their northern location shows in their light skin and sandy hair. They historically speak Balt, utilizing a unique script but following many of the grammatical rules of Kuric.

### Elennes

The Ellene inhabit the same area as the Kurani, sharing many characteristics. Their language is Enali, which provides many of the grammatical rules for Norin.

## Tulapi peoples

The tulapi are an ethnolinguistic family that makes up the majority of the temperate and tropical northern Tenoir. The languages involve harsh syllables and fricatives, making extensive use of k, c, d, and t sounds. They also use the Kurak script.

### Guapana

The Guapana are an ethnic group native to the coastal regions of northern Tenoir. They speak Guapí, which shares many gramatical rules as Amawá, with a harsher, sharper tone.

### Amawátí

The Amawátí are an ethnic group native to the jungles of northern Tenoir. Their language is Amawá, which has a rounder, smoother tone than Guapí, written both in the Kurak script and in traditional pictographic form.

### Tiru

The Tiru people live in the mountainous regions between North and South Tenoir speak Torui, a language functionally identical to Guapí with a different writing system.

### Poteca

The Poteca people are a Tulapi ethnic group also indigenous to the border between northern and southern Tenoir. Their language is the Zateca, which combines language rules from both Tulapi and Anadenné languages.

## Anadenné Peoples

The Anadenné peoples are an ethnolinguistic family indigenous to southern Tenoir, more adapted to harsh environments than the Tulapi. Their language also uses Kurak script, although written language is traditionally seen as unnecessary, unable to convey the complex subtleties of Anadenné pronunciation.