Shōsumo people

The Shōsumo people (尚羅民族, Shōsumo-mingzuku) are the dominant native ethnic group of Surea.

It is a term that came to be used around the late 19th century to distinguish the residents of the mainland Surea from other minority ethnic groups who have resided in the peripheral areas of Surea such as Suchigo, Fusosaki, Kaneyō as well as Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, and Taiwanese aborigines who were incorporated into the Empire of Japan in the early 20th century.

In the 6th century, the Shōsumo people - one of many tribes, of various origins, who had colonized Surea in prehistory - founded a state modeled on the Chinese states of Sui and Tang, the center of Asian political influence at the time. As the Shōsumo influence expanded, their language replaced Old Surean and became the common spoken language.

The Shōsumo people constitute about 92 percent of the population of the native Surean.