Ajatan people

The Ajatans were a group of people inhabiting the Ajat valley in prehistory. They were displaced and assimilated by migrating Machoric people that eventually would become the Moroyans and found the state of Amurón. Very little is known about the Ajatans, and what little is known is mostly inferred from the marks they left on the cultures, arts and languages of Amurón and, to a lesser degree, Mörone, as well as comparisons to surviving related peoples, the Vargians.

Appearance
The Ajatans likely shared phenotypic characteristics with the Vargians:
 * tall and lean bodies with long legs and hands,
 * very dark skin,
 * auburn and reddish hair,
 * hazel, green and dark brown eyes with epicanthic folds.

Language
There are no direct evidences of the language spoken by the Ajatan peoples, and very little is known it, including whether it even was a single language, a group of related dialects or several entirely unrelated languages.

Since it is widely believed that the Ajatans were genetically closely related to the Vargians, it is often assumed that their language(s) was also related. Some evidence to this hypothesis are surviving lexemes and toponyms in Moroyan (particularly the dialect of Hatūb) and Mörö Arazi:
 * some propose that the lexeme thrig in the Isle and Bay of Thrig is a surviving Ajatan element, rather than the Arazi lexeme meaning "ship", which is then assumed to be a folk etymology; similar words in various Vargian languages - dreyg, adrīhh, ytriah - mean "border" and "limit" (since the bay would be the border of the Moroy plain / desert);
 * the name Ajat itself is often presumed to be of Ajatan origin, since the name lacks any obvious Machoric etymology;
 * several Moroy lexemes with no Machoric could be Ajatan loanwords, such as šalaw (thorn bush), bequf (sugarcane) and rāš (watermelon), this is sometimes complicated by the existence of possibly related words in Vargian languages, that could be the source languages instead, or point to the relation between Ajatan and Vargian.