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| ## page was renamed from Bryce/Scratch/Yonggan People #acl swicked,Bryce:read The Yonggan (勇敢人, written with characters suggesting "Brave People" in the Central Earth Kingdom language but actually a loanword of a Yonggan language endonym) are a people of the northern Earth Kingdom, originally nomadic pastoralists like the Abka, who have now mostly adopted a settled, agrarian lifestyle. They are organized into various clans, one of which, the [[Bryce/Scratch/Nara|Nara Clan]], lives in the Hanwang desert. == Origins == The Yonggan languages are distinctly related to the Abka languages and differ significantly from those of the rest of the Earth Kingdom; the Yonggan and Abka also share a significant number of cultural and religious traditions. It is believed that the Yonggan were originally also nomads, but became gradually more settled over the course of the 12th-9th centuries BG. The Abka displaced them from the steppe as they mastered mounted archery; the Yonggan on the other hand expanded into the foothills and mountain regions shunned by the Akba, developing their earthbending and practicing badgermole husbandry. They also developed more peaceful relationships with the nearby Earth Kingdom and its allied polities such as the [[Avatar/Gan Jin|Gan Jin]], whereas the Abka mostly continued to raid these settled communities. == The Great Ri == A Yonggan conquest dynasty, [[Bryce/Scratch/Ri Dynasty|the Great Ri]] Empire, ruled the Earth Kingdom from 788 to 620 BG, with a rump state remaining in the North until 579 BG, when it was conquered by the new indigenous Hou Ting dynasty based in Ba Sing Se. The Ri imperial family were of the Nara clan, and descended from a Nara khagan of the Yonggan, Jaikan. (Indeed, 日 ''Ri'' is a translation of the Yonggan language word 納喇 ''Nara'', both meaning "sun.") == Language == The Yonggan language is related to the Abka language, and their grammar is fundamentally similar. There is a common stratum of words relating to nomadic life, and everyday words, that are clearly cognate with their Abka counterparts; morphological rules are also the same. A second stratum of words, mostly relating to settled life, technology and trade, are loanwords from Ganjinese and old Northern Earth Kingdom dialects. More recent loanwords come mostly from the Ba Sing Se dialect of the Central Earth Kingdom language. There are three major dialects of Yonggan: Western, Nara (also called "Southern", "Central" or "Imperial") and Montane (also called "Eastern.") All are mostly mutually intelligible. The Nara dialect contains more Earth Kingdom loanwords, mostly for administrative and ritual concepts, but some of these are words for everyday concepts that have supplanted indigenous Yonggan-Abka words. The Western dialect is similar to the Nara dialect, as they only began to diverge from the Nara when that clan was banished to the Hanwang Desert after the Earth Kingdom Civil War. However, the Nara dialect does also have a stratum of loanwords from the Beetle-helmet People and sandbender tribes, and its phonology has been influenced by this linguistic contact. Despite the Western Yonggan lands being closer to the steppe, the Eastern dialect is actually the most similar to the Abka language, though they are not immediately mutually intelligible. The Yonggan language is not a tonal language, distinguishing it from the Earth Kingdom languages. It has its own alphabetic script, but is often written with a selection of the common phono-ideographic characters used by the Earth Kingdom languages. There is nowadays a standard set of these characters used to transcribe Yonggan words. As there is not at all a perfect correspondence between the native phonetics of these languages and those of Yonggan, some characters that have the same pronunciation when used in the Earth Kingdom language would properly be pronounced differently when used in this standardized transcription. Before the development of this standardized transcription, the characters chosen for writing Yonggan names and other words in the Earth Kingdom script were chosen from among characters with appropriate phonetic readings according to the preferences of the transcriber. Often, characters with pleasant or auspicious meanings were chosen, but sometimes there were very few characters with the right pronunciation, and Yonggan names thus also include characters for random things like "warehouse," "nap," or "tin metal." == Appearance == The Yonggan have an appearance intermediate between the Abka and other Western peoples of the Earth Kingdom, and the people of the Central Earth Kingdom. In common with the Abka and some Si Wong and Hanwang tribes, they mostly have brown eyes, though hazel or green eyes are more common among the Nara than other Yonggan clans due to admixture with Central Earth Kingdom stock. Their skin color is typical of the medium-light Earth Kingdom ethnic groups (Fitzpatrick II-III classification, leaning more toward III.) {{attachment:northern.png||width=600}} |
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