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Culturally, the Nomysotat are quite assimilated into mainstream Gynnyn society and many descendants are only vaguely aware of their ancestry. Some Nomysotat have returned to Balakia following its transition to democracy in the 1950s, with their descendants numbering around 200000, but the majority still remain in Amaia. | Culturally, the Nomysotat are quite assimilated into mainstream Gynnyn society and many descendants are only vaguely aware of their ancestry. Some Nomysotat have returned to Balakia following its transition to democracy in the 1950s, with their descendants numbering around 200000, but the majority still remain in Amaia. | ||
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Revision as of 16:21, 26 July 2017
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 570000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Gynnyn, Amaia and Balakia | |
| Languages | |
| Ziimen languages, Amaian language | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Amaian people, Khamv people |
The Nomysotat people (Amaian: nòmysotat 'returners', singular nòmysy) are an East-Mirarian people living in the Gynnyn area of Amaia. They are descendants of various East-Mirarian groups who settled in what is now Balakia from about 500 BCE to 1800 CE and were forced to leave Balakia during the Hérdek revolution of the 1920s, mainly settling in Gynnyn city and various parts of western Khambvan. During the Partition of Khambvan and Amaia almost all the Nomysotat in Khambvan fled to Amaia since they did not follow Paroan religion.
The Nomysotat people historically spoke Khamaian relatives that preserved more archaic morphophonology and stress patterns while changing surface phonology and syntax dramatically under influence from the Balaki language. These Ziimen languages (Amaian zìimen 'of the valley') are nowadays spoken by less than 2000 very elderly Nomysotat altogether in Amaia, with drastic language attrition under intense pressure from varieties of the Amaian language. However, they have tens of thousands of speakers in Balakia, although some varieties are only found in one country or another.
Culturally, the Nomysotat are quite assimilated into mainstream Gynnyn society and many descendants are only vaguely aware of their ancestry. Some Nomysotat have returned to Balakia following its transition to democracy in the 1950s, with their descendants numbering around 200000, but the majority still remain in Amaia.