Jigh

Jigh, the Seat of the Gods Zyụu sạ Ẽṭho Ḷyạsịki
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Capital		Rakheng
Official languages		Ybon
Demonym		Jihhan or Jigh
Government
-	Rapyud
Area
-		598,953 km2 231,257 sq mi
Population
-	census	166,508,934
-	Density	278/km2 720/sq mi

Jigh (Ybon: Zyụu [zy̰:]), officially the Jigh, the Seat of the Gods, is a country located in Parshita, bordered by Sarmai in the northeast. Jigh is positioned at one of the cradles of civilization and writing on Sahar. The earliest mentions of Jigh as an entity are dated back to 2000 years BCE, during the time of the Ancient Darim Civilisation. The first actual governing body appeared by the name of Jigh was around 200 years BCE. Before that XXX empire had controlled much of the land until it did not.

Demographics

Language

The official language of Jigh is Ybon (or Modern Standard Ybon). It is an analytical-fusional language. Currently, there are over 130 million speakers of Ybon, with the highest concentration found in Jigh.

Ancient architecture

Ancient architecture in Jigh had stilt houses (Ybon: seṭẽ) built with materials like wood and bamboo. There are 2 types of houses with roofs curved up like a boat and roofs curved down like turtle shells. Another common type of housing was buildings made of mud with inner courtyards, where if multiple where built together the courtyards would connect and allow access from one residence to another, creating a small community between a few linked houses. These sorts of buildings are called kyatse (Ybon: kyiåṭsẽ). Kyatse were often more of a higher status housing than the common mud housings, though there have been several finds of kyatse housing in poorer regions. Together with artifacts found on sites implies a more communal society where housing was provided to everyone by the community rather than the individual for themselves. Though, in poorer regions, kyatse housing was more densely occupied as it served more families than a more rich kyatse did. In richer regions, the extra rooms in the kyatse were reserved for staff, though rarely were these spaces actually lived in.