Minaraller

Minaraller is a fictional ethnolinguistic group created for world-building and speculative fiction. The term denotes both a people and their language, as used in narratives and game settings.

The Minaraller traditionally inhabit a highland plateau and rugged river valleys, with villages perched on terraces and cliff ledges. Their core settlements cluster around stone towers and granaries, designed to blend with the rocky landscape.

They speak Minarallish, an agglutinative language with a moderate degree of vowel harmony and a rich set of honorific suffixes. The language incorporates loanwords from neighboring imagined languages and uses a script derived from rock inscriptions.

Kin-based clans organize themselves through councils of elders. Craft specialization focuses on stone masonry, timber carving, and metalworking. Music features pentatonic flute melodies and drum ensembles played during communal ceremonies and harvest festivals. Clothing emphasizes woolen fabrics with geometric embroidery.

In the fictional chronology, the Minaraller emerge in historical records around the ninth century of Eldaran time, forming city-state complexes that later federate under a council-king. They maintain fortified towers as protective and ceremonial centers.

In contemporary depictions, the Minaraller diaspora spreads to urban colonies while cultural preservation efforts—museums, language schools, and textile cooperatives—work to sustain Minarallish heritage.