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Appearances

Due to genetic admixtures with Indo-European speakers, most of the Mattinese people look like West Europeans, some of them look like Middle Easterners or Siberians, or the mixture of them.

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Genetics

Genetic studies show that the Mattinese people arose from a mixture of several human ethnic groups, most autosomal genetics of Mattinese are from Slavs(45%) and South/West European peoples(40%); however, genetic strains from ancient Garric peoples and Siberians/North Asians are also detectable.

Studies of Y-haplogroups show that a significant portion of the paternal ancestors of Mattinese people are from ancient Garric peoples; while the maternal ancestors of Mattinese people are mostly Europeans and North Asians.

Y-chronosome Haplogroup V is often associated with Garric speaking peoples, and it is found that around 40% of Mattinese males belong to Y-chronosome Haplogroup V; However, a significant number of Mattinese males belong to Haplogroups R1a(around 20%), R1b(around 15%), I(around 10%), N(around 8%), E1b1b, Q and C, which indicate an European and North Asian origin. Mattinese people are thus considered as an example of the father tongue hypothesis.

On the other hand, studies of mitochondrial haplogroups of Mattinese people show a clear European origin of the maternal ancestors of Mattinese people. Mitochondrial haplogroups H, U and T dominate among Mattinese people, with more than 98% of Mattinese belong to mitochondrial haplogroups H or U.

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It is generally accepted that Mattinese arose from ancient Garric peoples and have a shared root with the Kuvimo people., but the culture of Mattinese people is heavily influenced by a variety of foreign cultures, especially cultures of Indo-European peoples.

Lifestyle

Food
Mattinese cuisine shows substantial influences from Indo-European peoples, but few dishes are still shared with other Garric peoples like the Kuvimo people.

Traditionally Mattinese people eat cereal grains, barley and wheats are the most important among them. Meat are an important part of their diet and meat is highly valued in Mattinese culture. Beef, pork, muttons and chickens are all common types of meat among Mattinese people; besides steaks, sausages, bacons and hams are also common among Mattinese people.

Powders made of wheat and roasted barley are one of the most common food materials of Mattinese people. Traditionally, wheat and barley flour are made into dumplings or porridge by being blended with water, occasionally beer, tea or milk. The dumplings and the porridge made of wheat and barley flour are called dough and manst respectively in the Mattinese language. Similar dishes made of wheat and barley flour can also be seen in other Garric peoples like the Kuvimo people.

As for meat dishes, steaks have always been popular among Mattinese people, especially wealther ones. Mattinese beaf steaks were so famous, to the degree that steaks was almost a pronoun of Mattinese people during the 18th and 19th century.

Besides dough and manst, Mattinese people traditionally also eat breads and cakes made of wheat flour, barley flour, or a mixture of wheat and barley flour. dough, manst, and Barley bread are considered the staple food of Mattinese people.

In modern times, hamburgers, sandwiches, fried doughs(like doughnuts) and fried potatoes have become widely popular among Mattinese people.

Architecture
Wood is the most common material for construction. Palaces, fortifications and churches are often built with stones.

Traditional vernacular buildings have a dirt floor and a straw roof, covered with straws and other materials, flooring was only seen in palaces, churches, or houses of wealthier families; but flooring has become more available to everyone after the 19th century, nowadays houses with a dirt floor have become nonexistent. The most common material for flooring include stones, woods and tiles.

Family Structure

All societies have families, and nuclear families consisting of a father, a mother and the biological children of both sexes of the mother exist in all societies, either as the most prevalent form of family or as a part of an extended family.

The Mattinese society is traditionally divided into clans, and each family belongs to a clan, clans serve as a way to determine the ancestry of a person, and as a factor to determine if a marriage would be legal, marrying people belonging to the same clan with the same surname is seen as incest, and incest is a taboo in the Mattinese society, as in most other societies.

Since the late middle ages, nuclear families have become the norm of Mattinese people, extended families are not common among Mattinese people; however, evidence shows that before the middle ages, extended family used to be the norm of Mattinese society, like most other Garric-speaking societies.

Customs

Marriage

All societies have marriage in the sense of culturally recognised union between people, so does the Mattinese people. The Mattinese people are strictly monogamous, the monogamous tradition has been cemented by the introduction of Catholicism, and there are rules banning people marrying with members of the same clan or members.

Due to infuences of Christianity and Indo-European cultures, traditional Mattinese weddings bear certain similarities to Western weddings. Weddings are generally held in churches, with some form of blessing being given to a marriage.

Divorce is possible, and has become increasingly common in recent decades, but in the past it was difficult to divorce, and divorcing without a very sound justification was(and in some communities still is) frowned upon.

Funeral
The funeral tradition of Mattinese people is a mixture of ancient Garric traditions and Christian traditions, especially Catholic ones.

Burial is the most socially accepted way to handle the body of the deceased in the Mattinese society. Cremation was only used during a breakout of a plague, but the popularity of cremation is increasing among Mattinese people in recent years.

When a person is dying, his or her relatives will take him or her home, and it is a superstition common to all Garric peoples to consider it as a bad omen for someone to die anywhere other than one’s own house, as a result, there are much more Mattinese people dying at home than in hospitals or nursing homes.

When a person is dead, his or her body is placed on a bed at home, all his or her family members gather in the house of the deceased and recite prayers or verses from the Bible for him or her, priests are often invited over to help the burial. As a continuation of a Garric practice, the body of the deceased must be displayed for at least three days before bring put in a coffin and buried, this is to make sure that the deceased is really dead. After the body being displayed for several days, a final confirmation is made to make sure that the deceased is really dead, then the body of the deceased is put into the coffin, his or her family members then put the lid of the coffin on and nail the coffin, then all family members of the deceased carry the coffin to the graveyard to bury it.

Like many Christian societies, the graveyards are often a part of the church; also, graves and tombs of the same family are often concentrated in the same yard, even in big cities. Crypts and burial vaults are very common among Mattinese people.

Inheritance rules
In the Mattinese society, when a couple dies, the norm for inheritance is that their estate are divided equally between their children; however, undivided things like nooble titles are usually passed to the oldest son, and while the oldest son has the right to inherit the titles, he also has the duty to help all other brothers with their lives.

Naming Tradition
Mattinese people follow the western naming conventions and the western name order, that is, virtually all Mattinese people have a personal name and a family name, with the personal name coming first, followed by the middle name, and then the family name.

Mattinese given names are mostly gender-specific, some given names are bespoke, but most are repeated from earlier generations in the same culture, and like most societies using the western naming conventions, many of the Mattinese given names are of bible or Greco-Latin origin.

In contrast of given names, Mattinese surnames are much more likely to be of native origin. The most common Mattinese surnames include Huckintz, Montz, Quamp, Rotter, Ropp, Tippintz, Ump, Sidder, Shontz, etc.

Religion
Virtually all Mattinese people are christians, the majority are Catholics, but East Orthodox and Protestant minorities also exist. Traces of traditional Grassland Garric beliefs can also be seen but are often unnoticeable.

In recent years, some Mattinese people have become irreligious, atheism is allowed in the Mattinese Republic but atheists are often frowned upon in the society.

Language

Mattinese people speak

Mattinese.

Mattinese is written in the Basic Latin alphabet as English and French; however, some dictionaries may use diacritics to help learners pronounce words correctly.

Grammatically,

Mattinese uses SVO as the basic word order, and it is a partly analytic language with some synthetic elements that still remains. Adpositions are prepositions rather than postpositions; besides Mattinese displays differential object marking, in which the direct object is accompanied with an accusative preposition if it is a proper noun or a definite animate noun, the accusative preposition is optional when the direct object is definite but inanimate, the accusative preposition is not used when the direct object is both indefinite and inanimate.

Mattinese is a Garric language related to the

Modern Standard Sutti, but it has absorbed tons of foreign words from surrounding Indo-European languages like Romance languages, Germanic languages, Slavic languages and Celtic languages, and due to extensive loaning, only several hundred words are known to be of native Garric origin, the rest were lost. The Mattinese language is traditionally open to foreign loans, this is still the case today, although neologisms derived from native and nativised morphemes have become increasingly common in recent decades.

Due to the status of the Mattinese Republic as a hegemony of the world, Mattinese is widely taught as a second language in different countries

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