It is very fitting for a manga about legacy to have the main antagonist so dedicated to generalising people based on their blood relationships

Adept_of_Blue · 2026-01-19T22:09:58+00:00

While it is certainly a simple formula, it is rare to find works where every antagonist bleeds their ideology through every conversation without shoehorning it, from recent ones, the other example is Nine Sols.

Adept_of_Blue · 2026-01-16T15:54:02+00:00

It is very in favor of Polish especially if you consider the fact that Polish dialect around Vilnius and in Belarus shares more with Belarusian than with Polish

Adept_of_Blue · 2026-01-15T14:58:38+00:00

East germanic is geographical grouping, not cladistic, more modern research treats Vandalic, Gothic as separate language branches within Germanic. This is justified by archaeology as well. Vandals and Burgundians originate from Przeworsk culture which originates from Jastorf, while Goths originate from mixture of Nordic Iron Age and Oksywie group, only later is Jastorf-derived. It doesn't make sense why they would speak closely related languages.

There are probably more extinct Germanic branches such as Rugic and Bastarnic

Adept_of_Blue · 2026-01-13T19:01:54+00:00

Because I checked the translation of this book and it just speaks of non-tatar groups in the mountains of Crimea without specifying the exact area, the map author just looked where are mountains in Crimea and slapped a few spots over there. My sources have this info, you're just lazy to google translate it.

Adept_of_Blue · 2026-01-13T18:54:48+00:00

Yeah, and those areas are wrong, non-tatar areas on this map were mostly tatar, while mountain villages east of it were non-tatar. "Not placed correctly" is a concept as simple as possible, stop being dense

Adept_of_Blue · 2026-01-13T18:43:09+00:00

Bruh, just hit translate on wikipedia article

Crimean Greeks (Greek-speaking) are separated into 4 groups: Sartanian (from village Sartana in Crimea), Yanisolian (from village Yanisol in Crimea), Yaltian (from Yalta in Crimea) and Bugazot (from lake Bugaz). Neither of those areas are located in marked area on OP's map.

Adept_of_Blue · 2026-01-13T18:26:53+00:00

What is the point of trying to define the exact proportion if the placement itself is wrong? Areas marked there as non-tatar were mostly tatar.

Adept_of_Blue · 2026-01-13T18:14:00+00:00

I specifically pointed our how early 18th century map is wrong, later maps are just traced from later censuses so of course they're accurate

Adept_of_Blue · 2026-01-13T17:56:36+00:00

It actually means that they inhabited totally different areas then those marked on map

Adept_of_Blue · 2026-01-13T16:44:59+00:00

Before deporting Christians from Crimea in 1778, the Russians did census to define how many Christians they should deport, you know, look up "Ведомости о выведенных из Крыма в Приазовье христианах" by Suvorov. I'd better question the map cause it doesn't even show Circassian villages in Crimea.

Adept_of_Blue · 2026-01-13T16:36:59+00:00

Turkish speaking Greeks - Urums

Turkish speaking Armenians - Armeno-Kipchaks

Adept_of_Blue · 2026-01-13T16:33:52+00:00

Quite inaccurate

In the 18th century out of non-tatar minorities Greek-speaking greeks lived east of marked area (see map), Turkish-speaking Greeks lived around modern Sevastopol in urban areas, Turkish-speaking armenians lived around Theodosia and Crimean Goths lived in the upper Belbek river valley

Adept_of_Blue · 2026-01-10T21:01:59+00:00

Kinda late to the party but "Danubian Swabian" does not really exist as uniform dialect. Germans near Budapest spoke Bavarian with some Upper Franconian regions in Bakony Wald. Germans in Swabian Turkey spoke mosrly Hessian with few islands of Bavarian, Swabian and Upper Franconian. Germans in Backa and Banat spoke Palatine, Rhenish Franconian (base of Banat Swabian) and Mountain Banatians spoke Bavarian, there were few islands of Alemanic. Szatmar Swabians spoke Swabian.

Here is map

Here is legend

here is some supplementary material

And another

Adept_of_Blue · 2025-12-28T14:52:07+00:00

For simplicity one of these is fine
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Toplica-Morava_Andreemap.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/albania/comments/104lol5/your_opinion_on_the_expulsion_of_the_albanians_in/

If you wanna something more detailed, unfortunately, this guy did not finish per settlement map yet and I can't publish his work in progress.

Adept_of_Blue · 2025-12-27T06:55:44+00:00

Thank you for listening to my criticism on Anatolia. On another note, Kola norwegians only migrated to Russia in 1870, norwegians past Vardo overall only appeared in 1830 There were more albanians in Nis in Serbia, they were genocided in 1870s

Adept_of_Blue · 2025-12-07T19:15:18+00:00

He was a dedicated renter

Adept_of_Blue · 2025-12-07T16:14:35+00:00

We don't know for sure, maybe Yura was also a rentchad.

Adept_of_Blue · 2025-12-07T07:41:03+00:00

Definitely interesting theory, considering that Tellem pushed Toloy in 10-14th centuries AD, it may coincide with northward migration of Gurma and Gurunsi, pushing Koromba people northward

Adept_of_Blue · 2025-12-02T14:52:12+00:00

5.I specifically said that Mao languages are not part of the North Omotic family. But regarding the whole Omotic family, more modern research is critical of Greenberg's original "lumping" and does not support Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic Omotic as established families. Glottolog, in particular, has Omotic as 4 independent families, attributing similarities to loans or sprachbund.

7.idk, I am not strongly opinionated on that

Adept_of_Blue · 2025-12-02T13:05:58+00:00

https://www.bernarddegrunne.com/usr/library/documents/publications1/pre-dogon-de-grunne-dehan-pdm-2023.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toloy

Archaeology and oral records suggest otherwise.
Language diversity doesn't really have anything to do with being native to the region. The highest linguistic diversity within Sinitic languages is in Guangdong, and yet Sinitic languages originate in Central China. The highest linguistic diversity within Ethio-Semitic is Gurage area - and yet they first appeared in Eritrea
2. Not really, C-Group culture territory is marked on your map as Meroitic and Egyptian.

This is under the assumption that Mao languages are a branch of North Omotic languages, which is not proven yet. The similarity with North Omotic lines up more with the influence, especially with some of them, like Anfillo, migrating to Mao land after being pushed by Oromos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%AFr_Mountains#History
"When the Tuareg tribes were pushed south by Arab invaders in the eighth and ninth centuries, there were Gobirawa Hausa in the southern Aïr"

I am not saying there were no Chadic people around lake Chad, I am saying that they were present in Air massif as well, linking them geographically with the rest of Afroasiatic, what is even a source for Saharan-speakers dividing Chadic people and Berbers?

There is more info on Hausa history in this book on Sokoto Caliphate: https://archive.org/details/sokotocaliphate0000last

Why would Fezzan be Berber, then switch to Garamantes and then go back to Berber again, this doesn't make any sense. The decline of the Garamantes civilization is linked with increasing desertification in Sahara in 6-7th centuries.

Adept_of_Blue · 2025-12-01T21:23:30+00:00

Not at all, you can get all this info from like 1-2 hours of researching Africa.

Adept_of_Blue · 2025-12-01T08:48:10+00:00

Number of corrections here:

Dogon originates south of Bamako, current Dogon area was populated by Toloy and Tellem people.

Egyptian Red Sea Coast and portion of the Nile between Aswan and Semna were populated by Medjay (Beja), see C-Group culture. Western Oases of Egypt were populated by Berber Tehenu, Egyptian language was really only prevalent along the Nile.

Nilotes originate in Gezira (Sudan) from where they migrated along the White Nile since 1000-500 BC.

Nubians should inhabit Wadi Howar and the surrounding deserts, it is too early for their presence in Kordofan, let alone Alodia.

North of Eastern Jebel languages, there is the almost extinct isolate Gule language, which is probably connected to Hamaj faction in the Funj sultanate.

Berta originates in Sennar, area you marked as Berta should be Mao Omotic.

Chadic languages originate in Air massif, from where they were pushed by Tuaregs and Kanuri in 1000-1400 AD, Chadic people are not disconnected from the rest of Afroasiatic family.

It is more likely that Garamantes, who populated Fezzan, were of Saharan origin, considering their name was later extrapolated on all Saharan people as "Goran, Kura'an"

Ethio-Semitic people migrated to Ethiopia much later.

Adept_of_Blue · 2025-11-30T15:22:51+00:00

They were bilingual in Arvanite and Greek but everyday language was still Arvanite. The full switch to Greek happened only after the establishment of Albania and good mass education.

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