| 瑩華民族 Jing4waa4 man4 zuk6 Yingdalans | |
|---|---|
 The 37 official ethnic groups of Yingdala | |
| Total population | 480 million (approx) |
| Regions with significant populations |  Indrala 280 million Dalibor 10 million Jinlian 60 million
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| Language | Standard Yingdalan (in Yingdala) Ethnic languages |
| Related ethnic groups | Gao Showans, Tukarese |
The Yingdalan people (Standard Yingdalan: 瑩華民族, Jing4waa4 man4 zuk6), also known as the Yingdalan peoples (瑩大磖人民, Jing4daai6laap Jan4 man4) are the ethnic natives of the nation of Yingdala. Officially, there are 37 recognized ethnic groups residing in the nation of Yingdala considered to be parts of the core Yingdalan people. The largest ethnic subgroup are the Wong Yingdalan people.
Nomenclature[]
The term "Jingwaa Manzuk" to describe all 37 ethnicities of Yingdala is a political theory meant explicitly to define Yingdala as a multiethnic nation state. In this regard the modern term "Jingwaa Manzuk" is distinct from the earlier term "Jingdaailaap Janman", which implied a greater degree of autonomy and separation of independent ethnicities.
History[]
Yingdala has long been a multiethnic land, whose identity as a nation state was forged mostly as a response to Alorian colonialism. Before the colonization and arrival of the Xinhan Dynasty, records indicate that Yingdala - along with Kimlien and to a lesser extent Hanzen - were dominated under the rule of the Thousand Tribes, or Chinman. These were culturally distinct peoples - berated as "barbarians" by the Huang-Gao, ancestors of the Gao-Showans - that formed the base for what would become the indiegenious peoples of Yingdala. The Thousand Tribes built impressive native structures and innovative economies and technologies, but were largely displaced in the North by colonists from the Empire of Huang-Gao around what would become the Imperial capital of Jiaozhi during the 10th century CE.
It was especially upon the collapse of the Xinhan Dynasty into civil strife by the "Barbarian" Tan (Kunihito) warlords on the mainland that many Huang-Gao fled to Yingdala and formed the backbone of the modern Yingdalan identity. Declaring themselves the "Small Mikuni" (Classical Kunikata: 小三國, Middle Kunikata Reading: SjewX Samkwok), the remnants of the old Xinhan on Yingdala would eventually declare the Zhen Dynasty and continue the Huang-Gao traditions established by earlier states on the mainland. In the following years this divide, what would become known as the Great Schism (or the Great Oriental Schism), intensified when the winners of the Warring States period, the Iwanami Dynasty, refused to re-establish a Huang-Gao elite class and instead sponsored the spread of traditional Kunihito culture. In response Yingdala's Zhen Dynasty would form strong ties with Sekowo, who would initially pay tribute to the Zhen as the true successors of Xinhan, but this caused a serious rift with the newly ascendant Kunihito people that administrated what is now Kazulia, Mikuni-Hulstria, and Ostland.
Consequently, since the passing of the torch during the 12th century Yingdala's cultural and ethnic identity has been primarily directed by the Wong Yingdalan majority. This view of history believes Yingdala to be the true sucessor to the old Huang-Gao imperial dynasties from the ancient times until the Great Schism in 1153.
Ethnicities of the Yingdalan People[]
The composite ethnicities of the Yingdalan people number 37 total distinct groups as officially recognized by the central government. Of these, the primary and largest group are Wong Yingdalans, descendants of the wider Huang-Gao people.
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