Yaettengese people

The Yaettengese (Yaettengese: 恒灯國人; 얘뗑꼭인, Yaetteng’kkokin) are an ethnic group native to Yaettengkkok and northern Basanreseri in western Bangju. Yaettengese primarily live in their native land of Yaettengkkok, though there is a notable population of ethnic Yaettengese in Nukigurun and Namju

Since the end of Eulhae, Yaettengese ethnic enclaves have arisen overseas; primarily in Namju and Nukigurun. As of 2021 there are an estimated 33 million Yaettengese outside of Yaettengkkok.

=Etymology=

The Yaettengese refer to themselves as Yae’tteng’kkokin (Cheonja: 恒灯國人, Jeongja: 얘뗑꼭인), as well as Inimkkok-re-Yaettengchi. Both names roughly translate to “people of the eternal celestial country” or “countrymen of the eternal celestial land”. In reference to members of Yaettengese diaspora, the term Airokinshucharra-re-Yaettengkkok is used, and can be translated as “foreigners of Yaettengese ancestry”.

In Yojuan countries, such as Nukigurun, Yaettengese call themselves Parekhu (Yaettengese:파레구, Nuki: ᡦᠠᡵᡝᡴᡥᡠ) in reference to the historic Paregu State (1797-1830). Yaettengese in Namju refer to themselves as Wiinjoseon-ui-Hangjeongguk (Jeongja: 외인조선의항정국), which is simply the Jeongmian reading of Yaettengese Cheonja (恒灯語文, Yaettengmapp’un).

=Origins=

It is commonly believed that modern Yaettengese are descended from Fusenic and Proto-Kaisaic peoples who migrated to western Bangju from the Fusenese islands, as well as Resan island and the easternmost region of the Jeongmian peninsula. Recent archaeological findings indicate that Proto-Yaettengese were Aeyuan nomads who migrated south into easterm Yaettengkkok during the later half of the Bronze Age. The Proto-Yaettengese shared similar genetics with Fusenese and Sakushin people. Archaeologists and historians knowledgeable about ancient Yaettengkkok all find that the linguistic homeland and birthplace of proto-Yaettengese and early Yaettengese peoples is located somewhere in southern Aeyu, commonly believed to be the Tteh’kŏkssi’jai lake. Some time later proto-Yaettengese migrated to the Ttajai river and expanded, thus assimilating the Dōu’ssan people and were responsible for the Shihhimō migration. In 2014 Dr. Pyeo Eun-cheol proposed the theory that Old Yaettengese first formed in the later half of the Rival States of Yaettengkkok period and spread throughout most of present-day Yaettengkkok during the Choss’ki conquests.

=Genetics=

Yaettengese display decent frequencies of the Y-DNA haplogroup R1b-M343, approximately 48.1 percent of the entire Yaettengese population today possess this haplogroup. Yaettengese also display the O2-M122 and O1b2-M176 haplogroups, but in lower frequencies. As founded with most Jungjuan and Bangjuan ethnicities, modern Yaettengese are still fairly similar to their proto-Yaettengese ancestors.

Professor Fujiwara Yasuke of the Yaettengkkok Cultural Association in Chukyo, Fusen stated that though many Yaettengese families do contain homogenous lineages, many still have western ancestry. There are still ethnic groups sparsly populated throughout Yaettengkkok’s western countryside mostly descended from the Dōu’ssan and Chōsomui.

=Culture= The Yaettengese have historically been known to brutally impose their culture onto any ethnic populations they encounter or subjugate via conflict. Yaettengkkok is in the Sinjuan cultural sphere and as a result, Yaettengese culture shares common characteristics with other Sinjuan cultures. Displaying respect and formality with those in positions of authority, strict social etiquette, and a high level of professionalism are all standard in both Yaettengese culture and society.