Louisian people
The Louisian people are a people of Alexandrian descent living in the Lanzerwald that have affiliated themselves with the Ludwiggian people in the 1680's. A great majority of the Louisian people belongs to the Ludwiggian Reformed Church, with a minority remaining to adhere to the Autocephalous Nazarene Church of Alexandria. Louisian people predominantly live in Altstadt, Louisville and the surrounding area in the Confoederatio Aemilia. Louisville is considered to be the capital of the Louisan people with almost 3 million people living there and in the surrounding towns.
A small minority of Louisian people, only a few thousand, live in the United Principalities of Cibola, where they ended up after this nation was founded in the southern territory of the Republic of Sankt Ludwigshafen. Unlike in the Confoederatio Aemilia, where the Louisians are part of high society, they face a lot of discrimination in the United Principalities. This was exposed in The Plight of the Louisians, a book by Wolfgang Arnholtz in 1736. The book elicited a strong response from Nouvelle Alexandrie and the Confoederatio Aemilia. Nouvelle Alexandrie especially established the Louisian Relief Fund and the Louisian Cultural Association.
Louisian dialect
The Louisian dialect has a few characteristics that differ from the main Alexandrian language. The most striking to Alexandrian speakers is that the Louisians often pronounce the letter 'h' when it would not be pronounced in Alexandrian, for example in the word "Havre", meaning port. This is due to the influence of Cibolan Saxon.
Famous Louisians
- Princess Emilia Antoinette de la Rochelle
- Friedrich Flick, football player
- Donatien de LancĂ´me, military commander
- Thomas de Louisville, politician
- Mark Stau, football player
- Thomas de la Rochelle
- Galadriel Camel, fashion designer from Louisville
