Nordic peoples

Nordic peoples

Total population
c. 545 million (2020)
Regions with significant populations
Acrea 189,900,000 Æþurheim 129,700,000 Shalum 100,000,000 Delkora 73,900,000 Northern States 15,760,000 Cacerta 13,100,000 Ossoria 9,000,000
Languages
Various
Religion
Various

The Nordic peoples are a group of ethnicities in Tyran who trace their lineage back to the Nordic-speaking regions of Eracura. The wide array of different national ethnic groups within this label have caused some anthropologists to refer to the Nordic peoples as a "super-ethnic group". Although Nordic and its national and regional dialects are the predominant language for the greater majority of Nordic peoples, the group encompasses a variety of languages spoken including German (Gothic), French, and Northian and is not considered an ethnolinguistic group.

Modern Nordic peoples are descended from populations who originated in northeastern Eracura, in what is now modern-day Acrea, Delkora, and Nordkrusen, with the largest being the Acrean-Nordlander subgroup which spread to assimilate practically all other Nordic groups in the area, eventually spreading into Delkora. Various Nordic peoples practice a variety of religions, though almost all are formed from Old Nordic religion, with some of the largest being Valtrúr and Vallyar.

Etymology

The term "Nordic" originates from the Old Nordic term Norður, simply meaning north, and was used in different forms meaning Northmen by other ethnolinguistic groups in Eracura to describe the peoples of North Acrea and Nordkrusen. This description was eventually co-opted by Nordic groups themselves, who adopted the label Norðmenn.

History

Origins

The Nordic peoples have a largely agreed-upon single ethnogenesis, in a region spanning across Northeastern Eracura around the Gulf of Åland. The proto-Nordic peoples are considered to be descendants of the Erani-Eracurans diffused amongst local populations.

Languages

Northian

Main article: Northian language