Archive:Hux Kham people

The Hux Kham people. also called the Lakelanders, is an ethnic group of human beings in Sahar. Most Hux Kham people live in the Republic of Hux Kham, some of them living in adjacent countries like Laefevia, Kangthangland and Moriyo, besides, there are also many people of Hux Kham descendant living in the Confederation of Ebo Nganagam.

This article will mainly focus on the Hux Kham people living in the republic of Hux Kham, for Hux Kham people living in the Confederation of Ebo Nganagam, see the article of Ebo Nganagam Hux Kham people.

Traditionally, Hux Kham people are semi-nomadic peoples, some of them make a living mainly by horticulture, others make a living by keeping livestocks, but today, most Hux Kham people live in cities and work in the secondary or tertiary sector of the economy, currently, more than 70% of people work in the tertiary sector of the economy.

Being traditionally nomadic people, meat is a main food source of Hux Kham people, and meat is also the center of most Hux Kham cuisines.

Traditionally, Hux Kham people are polygamous, polygyny was common among rich people, polyandry did also exist, and levirate marriage was also common, but nowadays, monogamy has become the norm, polygamy has been banned and criminalized in Republic or Hux Kham(however, polyandry is still legal), and levirate marriage, although still legal, is rare nowadays.

Traditionally, dead people are cremated in Hux Kham society, and cremation ashes are scattered into the river or onto the ground, and cremation of the death is still common among Hux Kham people and cremation is actually the only legal way to handle corpses in the law of Republic or Hux Kham.

Usually, the family name of a Hux Kham person comes first, the given name follows the family name, the family name usually consists of a single word; while the given name can consist of one or two words.

The Hux Kham people have a long tradition to perform intermarriage with people from Qonklaks and people of some ethnic groups in Laefevia. It is said that originally, heart disease was common among Hux Kham people when the kingdom of Hux Kham was founded, but the king encouraged and sometimes even ordered his people to marry people from other groups, then the problem os heart disease became lessened significantly, and nowadays, cogenital disorders are not more common among Hux Kham people than among other ethnic groups.

Recent researches have shown that the Hux Kham people are genetically most similar to the Ya Amo people in Shekku, no matter how scientists take samples from both groups of people or what DNA haplogroups are tested, and they do also look similar to each other in appearance. However, the cultural and linguistic links between the Hux Kham people and the Ya Amo people have not been established yet, and linguists generally don't think the Hux Kham language and the Ame language are related, despite some people claim so.

History

According to legends, the ancestors of the Hux Kham people lived in Shekku, and they left Shekku because of groups of invaders from Miraria, persumbly the Epyx people or some Mahavic-speaking peoples. As a result of the invasion, some people chose to leave Shekku, those who left Shekku and successfully survived in Miraria became the ancestors of the Hux Kham people, which are called Pre-Hux Kham peoples, and the only aboriginal group of Shekku that are still living in Shekku is the Ame-speaking Ya Amo people.

Generally, it is thought that the emigration of Pre-Hux Kham peoples started long before 1 AD, also, Pre-Hux Kham peoples had a strong tradition of isolation, which is reflected on the Hux Kham language, and the genetics of Hux Kham people to some extent, however, after the first kingdom of Hux Kham had built up, the kings encouraged people to intermarriage with peoples from other ethnic groups, so the influence of isolation on the genetics is much less pronunced than on that on the language.

As a result of the emigration from Shekku, before the first kingdom of Hux Kham was built in about 1100 AD, Pre-Hux Kham peoples scattered in various places in Miraria, and they were treated like Jews and Gypsies in our world by surrounding peoples, the formation of the Kingdom of Hux Kham was a good news for them. the Hux Kham people only got the name "Hux Kham people" after the first kingdom of Hux Kham was built.

After the first kingdom of Hux Kham(the Truk-sa dynasty) had been built in about 1100 AD, the kings of the first kingdom of Hux Kham encouraged "their vagrant brothers and sisters", pre-Hux Kham people living in other places in Miraria, to move to the kingdom, which caused a steady population growth during the time of the first kingdom of Hux Kham, and such a population growth eventually led to the downfall of the first dynasty, and also caused some Hux Kham people migrated to Baredina, and those who migrated to Baredina became the ancestors of the Ebo Nganagam Hux Kham people.

Despite that the settler group led by E-a-ren-delu in 1400s was the most successful settling attempts, the immigration of Hux Kham people to Baredina had actually begun in early 1300s. The immigration of Hux Kham people to Baredina was never sponsored by the government of Hux Kham, actually, all governments of Hux Kham discouraged the immigration to Baredina.