Quaxin Xun

Kwaxin Xųn
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Capital		Tekaunye
Official languages		Mañi (classical/legal), Ndxiixun, Hlung, Maypawh, Ñichôh
Recognised regional languages		Mañi Kwang, Waľavaľwa
Area
-		154,260 km2 59,560 sq mi
Population
-	estimate	46,000,000
-	Density	149/km2 385.9/sq mi
Internet TLD		.qx

Quaxin Xun (IPA: /kwɑʃɪn ʃʊn/, Mañi: Kwaxįn Xųn, IPA: /kwaʃɪ̃n ʃʊ̃n/) is a country located in southern Soltenna, although its culture has traditional links to Akulanen. Its capital is Tekaunye.

Etymology

The name Kwaxįn Xųn is derived from Mañi, the classical language of Quaxin Xun. It literally translates to "land of clouds." The demonym Xųni for a person from Quaxin Xun is derived from this Mañi phrase.

The Xuni Kwang name for the country is Goз Šuƅƞ (IPA: /gó̞ ɕū̃ˀ/). The Nichoh name is Cuáxįy Sų́ (IPA: /kʷáʃĩj sṹ/).

TODO: different names in modern languages

History

Ancient history

Mainland Quaxin Xun has been settled and populated by a variety of different people before the arrival of modern-day Mañic peoples. These include a group related to ethnic Kwang people, and a group of unknown linguistic affiliation who are hypothesized to have given a number of words to the Mañi language, including a variety of maritime vocabulary and vocabulary relating to native flora and fauna of southern Soltenna. The islands of Quaxin Xun were originally populated by the Vaľwa people, who still live in isolated areas of the islands today.

In the 10th century BCE, speakers of a pre-Mañi Ngerupic language settled the coast. Some scholars, such as Zį²ʼą¹zą² Hé³xi² Wá²ko¹xe², have hypothesized from the Xuni substrate vocabulary that these people did not have sophisticated naval technology such as sails or even oars. His hypothesis, outlined in Sharks and Sailors of the Ocean: How the Mañi Came to be Seafarers, is that proto-Mañi Ngerupic peoples island hopped from Akulanen to Soltenna, encountered the speakers of the Xuni substrate language, and assimilated them while also acquiring their maritime technology.

Starting in 700 BCE, traders from Nagu brought ships with outriggers and crab-claw sails, novel technology which the Mañi people adopted. This is the beginning of the Xuni Migration Period. The Mañi people used this to raid the islands (both of Quaxin Xun and modern-day Mänea) and Akulanen. The wealth they acquired through raiding allowed them to expand further inland. In the year 563 BC, the leader Mirèñą Zamřani ("Tiger Claw") amassed power and invaded the highlands. He is remembered as the founder of the Xuni state.

Modern history

During the Pangyoun War, Quaxin Xun was a puppet of the Qonklese state, under Hexi Ñamba Se. After the war, it embraced Kuulism and Modern Thought, and aligned with Magali in the Qonk-Helsonian-Magali split. Its government is currently a Modern Thought aligned one-party state, although it has adopted an increasing amount of foreign and capitalist influence.

Geography

Climate

Quaxin Xun has a humid subtropical climate. The highland areas have a monsoon-influenced (Koppen Cwa) climate with wet summers and dry winters, whereas the lowlands have similar precipitation levels throughout the year.

Politics

The modern government of Quaxin Xun is a one-party state, with its ideology based in Modern Thought.

Demographics

Language	Number of speakers
Hlung language	13,200,000
Ndxiixun language	12,800,000
Maypawh language	8,900,000
Nichoh language	3,600,000
Kwang language	3,500,000
Walyavalywa language	95,000

Culture

Religion

Xunism (name TBD), the majority religion of Quaxin Xun, is based on indigenous Ngerupic beliefs and practices. Actual beliefs and practices are quite heterogenous. A specifically Xunist identity and (formerly, prior to Modern Thought) official state church emerged in response to contact with and pressures from neighboring Iovist and Pashaist states. Under Modern Thought, the Xuni state eliminated the state church, and reincorporated many Xunist practices into state ideologies. Despite an effort to eliminate religious identity as backwards and anti-Kuulist, a large number of Xuni citizens still identify as religious, and among those, Xunism is the majority religious identity.

Language and Ethnicity

Map of Quaxin Xun Ethno-cultural groups. Legend: * blue = Xuni Kwang * teal = Nichoh * green = Ndxiixun * yellow = Maypawh * red = Hlung * purple = Zaizung Mañi * gray = Walyavalywa

There is a complex interplay between language and ethnicity in Quaxin Xun; While older literature and common sense perceptions might argue there are only five or six languages spoken in mainland Quaxin Xun (Xuni Kwang and Zaizung Mañi are sometimes conflated), newer research has argued it is more correct to describe those as ethno-cultural rather than linguistic groups. While these groups, distributions roughly portrayed in the map to the right, have distinct sets of cultural practices such as culinary practices or distinct sets of common Bynames, they are not, in fact, linguistically homogenous. Linguist Ŋléz Xáákán has demonstrated, for example, that the Xooch "dialect" is not intelligible to the vast majority of Maypawh speakers (Ŋléz, 1996), And similar conclusions are being reached in other parts of the country, such as with the Tluung of the west coast or the northwesten Ndxiixun "dialects".

Perceptions of these groups as unitary despite their linguistic differences are still the most common stance among layman, and this conceptual unity stems from a common sense of ancestry, each group having its lineage ultimately traced backtraced back to a single semi-historical figure regardless of linguistic unity. For example, both Maypawh and Xooch speakers trace their ancestry, if pressed, to Dxîꞌâza Ŋliw Akpázax Xéé, a 15th century warrior of dubious historicity. While modern Xuni national identity is usually based on a sense of shared civil-religious practices and ethics derived from Xunism and Modern-Thought, attempts at this sort of group ancestry exist, often with investment in scientific prestige. One notable example is a genetics paper (Sheiq, Sịlịsñạạ, Eimjń & Ar; 2008) which argues that over 80% of the population of Quaxin Xun is ultimately descended from Mirèñą Zamřani Zįʼąząļì Liì. The international scientific community usually regards such attempts as pseudoscience, but they do have some traction within Quaxin Xun.

Gender and sexuality

Quaxin Xun has a traditional trinary gender system. Same-sex relations between two men or two women, or transition from one binary gender to another, are frowned upon, but essentially tolerated. The Zambaist movement, which works for economic and social justice for ząm (third gender) people, originated in Quaxin Xun.

Calendar

Quaxin Xun uses the Mañi calendar, a lunisolar calendar with 13 months (including one intercalary month) named for constellations of the Ngerupic zodiac.

Personal names

Personal names in the Mañic cultures of Quaxin Xun are based on the Mañi calendar.

Music and dance

The most prestigious classical dance form of Quaxin Xun is the butterfly dance, performed to yàłurał music.

Games

Many card games and board games traditionally originate in Quaxin Xun. These include izind, oha, and tpanaa.

See also

• Awating
• Bosato
• Nyatol
• Zaizung