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There are currently five main ethnic groups in Malentina, each of whom with differing ethnic origins that happen to have a few similarities in some cases. The largest ethnic group is the indigenous [[Maaleen people]], with the indigenous [[Tinuud people]] coming close as the second-largest ethnic group in the country. Overall, the Maaleens and Tinnuds make up 67.5% of the population, and yet they are among the poorest and least socio-politically influential people in the country. The [[Ardmistizo]] people, people of primarily mixed indigenous and Ardmori ancestry, make up the third-largest ethnic group in the country, and are closely related to the [[Costizo]] people, who make up the smallest denominated ethnic group in the country. The names of these two ethnic groups are respectively the portmanteau of Ardmori and Mestizo, and Coscivian and Mestizo; Mestizo, meaning "mixed person" in [[Pelaxian language|Pelaxian]], is a word that originates in [[Vallos]] and was used to describe the descendants of mixed race Vallosi-Pelaxian couples who lived in the interior areas of the [[Viceroyalty of Los Rumas]]; Mestizo is also used to collectively refer to the Ardmistzo and Costizo populations, and is also used in official census documents which state that they currently make up 16.4% of the population. The fourth-largest ethnic group in Malentina, making up 8.9% of the population and yet is supposedly one of the more powerful ethnic groups due to their greater amounts of wealth on average, are the [[Ardmori people#Ænglo-Ardmori|Ænglo-Ardmori]] people; the descendants of Ænglish Protestant refugees who have fled to [[Ardmore]] from mainland Levantia due to Ardmore's relatively tolerant attitude towards Protestants. They are also closely related to the [[Arco people]] of [[Arcerion]] and have historically played a huge role in Ardmori, Arcer, and Cronan history as a whole. The smallest ethnic group are small groupings of indigenous people and Occidentals who are not of a significant enough population to be given their own category; they are mostly [[Kelekonese people|Kelekonese]], [[Telekonese people|Telekonese]], [[Pan-Qabóri civilization|Qabóri]], and non-mixed [[Coscivians]] and [[Cartadanians]]. The Kelekonese and Telekonese people in Malentina are usually either the descendants of North Songunese people who have moved to the archipelago during the height of the [[North Songun civilization]] or the descendants of refugees who have fled [[Kelekona]] in the late 1970s, and the Qabóri people are the descendants of settlers from the [[Qabóri Woqalate]] (now [[Tierrador]]); all three groups are, much like the Ænglo-Ardmori people, wealthier on average compared to the indigenous Maaleen and Tinuud populace.