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Murungu
Varungu

File:HappyValley.jpg Four white people in Crogan
Total population
~550,000
Regions with significant populations
Rwizikuru	21,595
Languages
Estmerish, Gaullican, and weRwizi
Religion
Sotirianism

The murungu (pl. varungu) are people in Rwizikuru who are of Euclean descent, and are citizens of Rwizikuru.

Etymology

The term murungu is a weRwizi language term referring to white people.

The most common theory says that the term originated from a name that is commonly used by other Bahian peoples to refer to God or the creator deity, Mulungu. According to linguist and settler Marvin Carnall, who first proposed the idea in 1911, when the Estmerish first arrived to present-day Port Graham in 1638 and established a fort, the native veRwizi saw the Estmerish as Gods, and thus used the term murungu to refer to the Estmerish.

However, this interpretation has been met with substantial criticism, with many veRwizi arguing that Carnall's theory is Eucleocentric and plays into the common trope that "uncivlized peoples" see Eucleans as gods.

The most common alternative theory, first proposed in 1975 by linguist Tazvitya Mhlanga claims that the term derives from the "pumpkin-like" appearance of the earliest Estmerish settlers in the 17th century. Thus, they called the white commmunity "people of the pumpkin."

This term was historically only used by the weRwizi people to refer to all white people. However, in 1946, with independence looming, many white people chose to keep the citizenship of their home countries, instead of accepting Rwizikuran citizenship. Thus, Samhuri Ngonidzashe needed to devise terms, so to distinguish the "white citizens," and the "white expatriates."

Thus, he chose to use the term "murungu" or "varungu" to refer to white citizens of Rwizikuru, and "munodzoka" or "vanodzoka" to refer to the whites who chose to not accept Rwizikuran citizenship. Since independence, the latter term has evolved to refer to all expatriates of Euclean descent, while the former now only refers to Rwizikuran citizens of Euclean descent.

History

Colonization

white immigration not as high as in other Estmerish colonies, what with the hot climate: Crogan becomes main center of the white community from 1890s on as it is somewhat cooler than Port Fitzhubert, and is home to large farms of cash crops. by 1931, white population reaches 14,867 people.

Post Great-War

With the end of the Great War in 1935, the white community in Riziland were augmented by Gaullophones living in Olongaland, or the portion of the Gaullican colony of Quigomba which was split between Nasana and Estmere.

While most of the Gaullican residents in Olongaland were either expelled, or left of their own accord over the next few years, there was still a substantial white presence in Olongaland, which was predominantly Gaullophone.

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Post-independence

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