Šima

THe Šìma are a collection of tribes of Khulls ancestry that live in the Poswob Empire. They are stereotytpically associated with bananas, despite living in temperatre climates with no easy access to the tropics.

Language

The Sima language is very conservative compared to its relatives. The phonology of Khulls was highly unstable, and unlike Moonshine, Ogili, Sarapios, etc, which all changed it rapidly into something completely different, the basic topple-prone structure of both the vowels and consonants is mostly intact in Sima. However, the inventories are noticeably smaller. There are no labialized consonants, no ejective consonants, no long vowels, no pharyngealized vowels, and no new phonemes of any kind.

It is less primeval-sounding than its ancestor Khulls, but still stereotyped nevertheless as an extremely guttural and aggressive language. "Everyone speaks Sima when they're pooping in a field" is a common example of stereotype.

Culture

Šìma people are aggressive and boastful of their status as slaveholders in the Poswob Empire, and their lack of empathy for the abuses they inflict on the Poswob slaves. The United Pacifist Treaty, signed about five thousand years ago, gives the Sima (and any other Khulls-descended tribe) unrestricted rights to rule the Poswob territories forever, and to use Poswobs as slaves. The treaty gives the slaveholders power far beyond what they have ever used. For the most part however, the Sima restrict their rule to open plains, not the mountains or any place cold or thinly settled.