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| group            =  Caponoirs
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| total            =  '''~5.5 million'''<br>'''4,098,791''' in [[Preisland]] <small>(2008 census)</small>
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| regions          =  northern [[Preisland]] and northeast [[Remeria]]

| languages        = {{wp|French language|Apelian}} ({{wp|Louisiana French|Cape Apelian}}), {{wp|Louisiana Creole|Cape Creole}}, {{wp|German language|Vierz}}
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| religions        = {{wp|Christianity|Wedianism}}
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'''Caponoirs''', also referred to as '''Apelian Preislanders''' ({{wp|French language|Apelian}}: ''Preislandiens apellais'') or '''Caponese''', are an ethnic group that reside in the northern region of Preisland and the northeastern region of Remeria around the Ondepper Cape. Most Caponoirs are identify by speaking {{wp|French language|Apelian}} as their {{wp|first language}}, differentiating them most of the inhabitants of Veisic Artalia who speak {{wp|Dutch language|Borish}} or {{wp|German language|Vierz}}. Caponoirs are not identified by race and instead come from many different racial backgrounds such as {{wp|Black people|Tusolan}}, {{wp|White people|Patyrian}}, and {{wp|Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous}} peoples who mixed together during the colonization of the Artalias. Many Caponoirs can trace some ancestry back to [[Apelia]] during the period of Apelian colonization of South Artalia during the 16th and 17th centuries when thousands of Apelians came to the Artalias.

==Etymology==
The cape of northeastern South Artalia was named the ''Ondiepe Kaap'' ({{literal translation}} "Deep Cape") by the Borish explorer Jan-Douwe Drost in 1502. The name was {{wp|Transliteration|transliterated}} into Apelian as ''Cap Ondepoise''. The word ''Caponoir'' was formed as a {{wp|portmanteau}}, combining "cap" and "on" with the "[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-oir#French -oir]" suffix added.

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