Mosriak Today
Ground-breaking report tears the veil on Utari dominance in nation.
January, 5323
Cise - Professor Zmitser Abecedarski, a Professor of Linguistics and Utari Mosir History at the University of Emori has announced significant findings related to the history of Utari Mosir. Professor Abecedarski speculates that the modern land of Utari Mosir was largely devoid of human life outside of sparse tribes of proto Dovanian's, the land was primarily settled by several colonist over the centuries of colonization. The first colony that was formed was done so by a variety of Gao-Showan groups, notably Kunihito from the area of modern Hulstria and Gao-Soto, they traveled from HGS and eventually settled along the coast of modern Ostland and western Utari Mosir. The Kunihito settlers were largely displaced peoples who practiced a pagan-type religion that focused on the worship of animals, they were known as the Utari (OOC: Ainu peoples) and speak Utari (OOC: Ainu) despite the distance from their Kunihito cousins, they have maintained linguistic links with the Kunihito people and many Utari's continue to speak Kunikata as a sort of lingua franca. Emori was one such settlement and remains the epicenter of the Utari people and has served as the capital of the modern nation of Utari Mosir till this very day. Professor Abecedarski deviates from history as he notes that it was not the Utari people who would come to dominate the nation but an off-shoot of the Rodshyan people often referred to as the Mosir. It is believed that the name of the nation, Utari Mosir, comes from but some suspect that is simply incorrect as does Professor Abecedarski.
Professor Abecedarski hypothesizes that when the Trigunian's formed their first colony in eastern modern Utari Mosir in the mid to late 17th Century, the colony eventually lost or significantly reduced contact with mainland Trigunia. This lead to the development of an off-shoot language of Rodshyan known as "East Rodshyan" (Rodshyan: vostochnorodshyanskiy) for lack of a better term. Governor-General Erik Larionovich Boytsov was the first to formalize the language shift in the early 18th century as the language become common amongst the colonist compared to Rodshyan proper. Slight cultural shifts began up until the arrival of several thousand monarchist and their families, commonly known as the "White Exiles" (Rodshyan: Белые изгнанники; tr. Belyye izgnanniki), arrived in the Trigunian colony after being exiled by the communist government in Trigunia during the early Trigunian Socialist Republic era. White was the color associated with the Trigunian Great Prince and Tsar, many of the exiles were middle ranking officers, civil servants and wealthy nobles and merchants who fled or were forcibly exiled from Trigunia. The East Rodshyan language and people eventually developed a unique identity and as the dominance of the White Exiles became more pervasive the East Rodshyan became known as the "East Whites" (Rodshyan: Восточные белые; tr. Vostochnyye belyye) or "Vostbelye" but in the native language as the "White Peoples" (Bielanarodov: Белыя народы; tr. Bielyja narody). A diaspora in Dolgavia refer to themselves as the "Beloyuzhni", but they are identical to the Belanarodni.
As the new Belanarodni culture and language flourished, trade with merchants and traders which had formed the city (and later nation of al-Mina) Mina, had a profound influence on the variety of peoples located at modern day Vorkuvkar. Majatran traders and merchants from Turjak, Dumandi, and Majatran cultures began interacting with the Belanardoni speakers throughout eastern Utari Mosir and a majority of those groups began to develop languages influenced by both Belanarodni and respective Turjak, Dumandi and Majatran languages. One such group, known as the "Wanderers" (OOC: Kazakh) by merchants and the Belanarodni alike, developed a language borrowing components of Rodshyan, Belanarodni and the the various Majatran languages and were called the Kezbeler and speak the "Wanderer Tongue" (Kezbe Til). The Wanderers were one such group, another tribe that began interacting with the various traders and merchants became known as the Followers of Akim (OOC: Uzbek; Akim izdoshlari), the first of the variety of tribes to convert to Ahmadism and subsequently gained the name of Akimiz. The final group of tribes that had long been pushed out of both Kzebeler and Akimiz societies formed a loose community as vagrants and vagabonds, becoming known in their native tongue as "Selsayak" (OOC: Kyrgyz), or vagabonds.
The Utari (OOC: Ainu) people make up approximately 1/4 of the total population of the nation named after them and enjoyed dominance for much of the countries history due to patronage from Yingdala and other Gao-Showan nations and partners, this was upended when Greater Hulstria cracked down on its subjects. The Hulstrian's unseated the Utari Emperor and installed a number of different Viceroys to rule and manage the land. When South Utari was granted its independence in 3394 the pro-Gao-Showan government installed an Ainu Emperor. The Utari, according to Professor Abecedarski, are largely confined to the south central portion of Utari Mosir and are largely based in Emori. The Professor proposed adopting Belanarodni as the de facto language of Utari Mosir with recognition given to the various regional languages.