Namiya people

Namiya people (奈宮人) or locally Karanienin are a minority ethnic group of Nakama. Politically, they mostly live in Nanpo Region of Nakama although they distributed all across Nakama or countries abroad. Their languages make up the Namiya languages, considered to be one of the three branches of the Japonic language family, the other being Japanese and Ryukyuan/Okataian.

Namiya people like Yamato and Fuuki are recognized by Nakamaese government as three main ethnicity of Nakama. There are total estimated 11 million Namiya people where 9.8 millions are residents of Nakama. Ethnic Namiya dispersed elsewhere mostly in Hawaii and neighboring nations of Nakama including Japan, Oka, Teiko, and for some extant China.

Recent genetic and anthropological studies indicate that the Ryukyuans are closely related to Yamato people or Japanese/Nakamaese. Evidence of culture similarities and language variation with Yamato people theorized that Namiya people was or at least related to Yamatai people which mentioned several times in History of Japan and China.

Etymology
The name of Namiya actually came from the Nakamaese way of reading the Kanji 奈宮 which is to describe the people on the south of Yamato realm. However in the way local people read the kanji, it's read Karanie, Kanie or Karane however Namiyan Empire under protectorate of Kurahashi Shogunate standardize the usage of Namiya instead of Karanie to avoid confusion between both people. These terms are rarely used, and are politicized markers of a distinct culture.

Origins
According to archaeological evidence, it is currently believed that Namiya people are the descendant of Yamatai people which separate their culture with the later Yamato people during Yayoi period (300 BC–300 AD). Later Yamatai people migrate to the southern island (which is modern day Nakama) and settled in the southern portion of Seijima Island. Evidence suggested that the expansion of Yamato people and presence of Emishi people in northeastern Honshu, Seijima and Higashima leads to the migration of Yamatai which further separate themselves from the Yamato culture and develop their own.