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==Nomenclature== | ==Nomenclature== | ||
The term "Delepasian" (sometimes in the forms ''Delepasan'' or ''Delepase'', from the name Delepas) currently denotes the politically, culturally, and socially dominant and majority group among the non-indigenous groups of [[Rumahoki]], or [[Pelaxian language|Pelaxian]]-speaking population of [[Pelaxians|Pelaxian]] origin. Their original progenitors, especially in paternal lines, also included smaller numbers of [[Cartadanians]], [[Latinic people|Latins]], and the indigenous [[Vallosi people|Vallosi]] people. Historically, the term "{{wp|mestizo}}" has been used to describe the Pelaxian-speaking colonists further in-land as a group, with ''Vallosi-Pelaxian'' being used to describe the colonists who lived in coastal areas and thus were completely of Pelaxian ancestry; these | The term "Delepasian" (sometimes in the forms ''Delepasan'' or ''Delepase'', from the name Delepas) currently denotes the politically, culturally, and socially dominant and majority group among the non-indigenous groups of [[Rumahoki]], or [[Pelaxian language|Pelaxian]]-speaking population of [[Pelaxians|Pelaxian]] origin. Their original progenitors, especially in paternal lines, also included smaller numbers of [[Cartadanians]], [[Latinic people|Latins]], and the indigenous [[Vallosi people|Vallosi]] people. Historically, the term "{{wp|mestizo}}" has been used to describe the Pelaxian-speaking colonists further in-land as a group, with ''Vallosi-Pelaxian'' being used to describe the colonists who lived in coastal areas and thus were completely of Pelaxian ancestry; these two terms are not particularly objectionable, but "Delepasian" has been considered a more appropriate term. | ||
By the late eighteenth century, the term was in common usage in the Pelaxian colonies of eastern [[Vallos]]. At one time, ''mestizos'' denoted the Pelaxian-speaking colonists who lived away from the coast: those settlers who engaged in intermarriage more often, and did so regularly regardless of social status. Most Pelaxian-speaking settlers who lived in coastal areas saw themselves as ''Vallosi-Pelaxians'' despite never having intermarried with the indigenous Vallosi. Both terms have remained in use as late as the 1850s. | By the late eighteenth century, the term was in common usage in the Pelaxian colonies of eastern [[Vallos]]. At one time, ''mestizos'' denoted the Pelaxian-speaking colonists who lived away from the coast: those settlers who engaged in intermarriage more often, and did so regularly regardless of social status. Most Pelaxian-speaking settlers who lived in coastal areas saw themselves as ''Vallosi-Pelaxians'' despite never having intermarried with the indigenous Vallosi. Both terms have remained in use as late as the 1850s. | ||