Afro-Lemurians

Afro-Lemurians
In antiquity regions along the southern and eastern coasts of Africa were raided by the Native Lemurian peoples for slaves. Due to the large number of slaves brought over from Africa there were eventually slave revolts that lead to the formation of various "new tribes" and kingdoms comprised of run-away/rebel slaves. While most of these revolts were crushed in the eastern portions of Lemuria there were a number of successful new tribes and kingdoms that managed to establish themselves across the southwestern portions of the continent. Eventually these groups grew into some of the major ethnographic divisions seen across 'Afro-Lemuria.' Initially scholars had included the Afro-Lemurian peoples in with the Indigenous Lemurians, but soon after serious study of the continent, its language and cultures began it was determined that the Afro-Lemurians were a completely separate group of peoples. While some cultural similarities exist, even the Afro-Lemurians and the Indigenous Lemurians themselves clearly made distinction between their respective groups of cultures.

Hwingsudazti
The Hwingsudazti tribe is one of the northern tribes of the Akamatuli mountains. Originally they came from the northern fields of Pantiya as excavations from French archeological teams and the extensive oral tradition has lead people to conclude the lands of Pantiya, titled "Haztwa" in Hwingsudazti, as their place of origin. Their gravesites are special as they often have a "frame of bones" surrounding the corpse, these bones were often decorated in ancient Lemurian times but that practice fell out around the 12th century. These people are known for their colorful shields, often painted with different colours and adorned with different decorations. These shields often contain a depiction of the families deity along colorful decorations. These shields often bear the names of their ancestors, often great ones, and have helped keep one of the few written parts of native Lemurians history and contains one of the few native Lemurian alphabets, their alphabet has helped provide evidence for the development of an alphabet indigenous to Lemuria though it appears to not be connected to other known Lemurian alphabets or writing systems.