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Oalanii, and its original native speakers, the Oalanii peoples, are of [[Taskaric languages|Taskaric]] origin. However, unlike most of their other cultural cousins, they did not settle in Birnu, and instead the Oalanii derive from a group of Proto-Taskaric peoples who sailed south and then west in the Néekh Strait, also called the ''β''-Taskaric peoples(as opposed to the ''α''-Taskaric peoples, who settled Birnu). Some notable cultures that derive from the ''β''-Taskaric peoples are the [[Néekh]] and of course, the Oalanii.

===''β''-Taskaric===

Through several thousand years, the ''γ-'' eventually populated most of the rocky steppes of SNE(southern north-east) Talkoch, and split into dozens of little tribes that each claimed parts of different steppes. However, though they were tribally organised, they did not develop cities or even agriculture in general. They were still largely nomadic, roaming the steppes for food and shelter. Eventually though, the Proto-Oalanic peoples, specifically of the Tutaakmaki Steppe began to leave the SNE Talkoch steppes, and began to advance south into the lush, fertile plains of the Oalan River Basin. There were already Yeldhic peoples in this region, who had already began to practice proto-agriculture which they had probably learnt from the Paleoyeldhic peoples that were further south.

However, the Proto-Oalanic were battle hardened from centuries of war between the tribes, and they quickly drove out the Yeldhic peoples militarily, though importantly they also assimilated agricultural techniques from them. Thus, the Proto-Oalanic very quickly switched from a nomadic to a pastoral lifestyle, and larger settlements began to pop up in the river basin as larger populations could be sustained. Eventually, the largest, the city we now call Oalan, emerged as a megacity from the rapid agriculturalisation.

===Oalan, the city===

Though not the first, it was certainly one of the earliest cities of Talkoch. The opportunies of Oalan meant that many of the people living in other smaller settlements began to migrate into Oalan, leading the city to expand even further across both river banks of the Oalan river and into the basin as a whole. As the people of the basin became more and more centralised, a unified state, language and culture began to form as previously distinct dialects converged in proximity of one another to form the early Oalanii language.