The Veshk River Peoples are a collection of different clans and families who settled in the
Veshk River Valley with is verdant jungle and fertile soil. They would go on to create the various kingdoms that would become central to the Veshk Sultunate as it is today.
The River Peoples
The Veshk River Peoples veer towards the darker side of the spectrum in terms of skin tone and their hair tends to be on the curlier and tightly knit side of human hair types.
The Veshkan humans owe their existence to the original Solavii who settled the fertile High Jungles of the Primordial Continent, a huge fertile basin that lay at the center of the huge pangea like landmass. The Horned Jungles on the northern coast of Keskad are all that remains of that immense jungle as whenever the first shattering occurred, it happened near the center of the High Jungles. As the Shattering broke the continent, the large central sea that lay to its south drained into the riven spaces between the new land-masses and dried up to create the Desert of Veshk while what had once been a simple spring in the high mountains began to slowly carve a trail south to form the Veshk River.
The Solavii in the jungle had fled in all directions, the ones who fled south through the now drained central sea eventually found a home along the fertile hundred mile wide strip of jungle and forest that ran along the Veshk River. These would become the Veshkan humans.
The Veshk River Valley Dialects
The Various languages of the Veshk River Valley and the Desert at large are relatively close to ancient solavii, though still markedly different.
The real world example would be something akin to
Kiswahili or other
Bantu languages.
Naming Conventions:
There are various distinct cultures within the Veshkan people and their naming conventions vary from culture to culture.
Among the Veshki River People the names they introduce themselves as depend entirely upon the formality of the meeting, the social standing of those involved and the familiarity of the parties. They bear two main names, the name given to them by their parents and a name they choose for themselves when they turn 15.
For Example:
Shana ja'mobundi, Shana of the Mobundi Family. This is the most informal introduction that would normally be made with non-family or friends. To Family or close friends it would merely be be Shana, or her first name with a name she had chosen herself. In this case let us say she chose the name Zurzur, a sort of nonsense word for free-wheeling movement or drifting. Her close friends of family would call her Zurzur more often than Shana as they would consider her chosen name the most familiar one.
You can consider Veshi River Peoples names in the framing of "Facing". The names used depends on whether the person is facing inwards or outwards.
As the formality or the social disparity grows, a persons name becomes more complex. When introducing yourself to someone of slightly greater social stature Shana would introduce herself as Shana fa'Jabari Ja'Mobundi; Shana the Daughter of Jabari of the Mobundi family. Further stature requires denoting the fathers family name if it differs from Shanas. The Veshi River People put far more stock on Matrilineal lines so the greatest formality is reserved for introducing ones mothers line.
This may look something like this:
Shana fa'Jabari Ja'tundo Ma'Ari Ja'Mobundi, when introducing herself to someone of far higher social stature than herself. The person she was introducing herself to would, do to their greater stature and the implication that Shana would know them would merely introduce themselves as their most informal non-family name.
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