Jelbic peoples

The Jelbic people (Old High Jelbic: Jelb'koékai) or Jelbics are a major meta-ethnicity whose members live predominantly in North-East Majatra and speaking the Jelbic languages, a group of mutually intelligible dialects descending from Old High Jelbic. Jelbics share, to varying degrees, linguistic, cultural, political, ethnic, and historical traits, in addition to numerous indigenous elements. The Jelbic people are thus a broad and heterogeneous ethno-linguistic group of peoples. For that reason Jelbic identity is primarily based on linguistic grounds, however not all native Jelbic speakers consider themselves Jelbic, and many non-speakers (most notably the Vanukean people) have adopted a Jelbic identity.