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On some campaign settings, members of the halfling race have an unique name that they use to refer to their people as a whole, such as Mystara's "Hin" or Greyhawk's "Hobniz" (yeah, I know). The general idea is that "halfling" is probably a term created and used by other races, and can be perceived as a little insulting (you're being defined as "half of something").
So, do Golarion halflings have a name they use to refer to themselves as a people and/or race, or has that been stripped from them by slavery like almost all else?
^I haven't heard of a name they have for themselves on Golarion, so your last hypothesis seems likely be correct, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
That's so incredibly sad.
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Since the halfling language in Golarian is the slave argot of the their owner's languages. In the setting as it currently stands, the halfling origins and original cultures have been effectively destroyed. There is likely to be some survival of individual words and concepts, but there won't be many who can track these to their roots.
It is sad but there is a certain level of heroism and victory of spirit there too.
They do, but we can't use it for copyright reasons.
^Are you sure? If it was held up as Product Identity (the only thing I can think of that might prevent Archives of Nethys and www.pathfinderwiki.com from having it), then it should be in the list of Product Identity terms, but I don't remember seeing any such thing.
Tolkein copyright not D&D copyright, to be clear.
D'oh! Since we were talking about Golarion, I thought he meant Paizo copyright.
It's Kender.
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It's Kender.
If it is, I say we...
I rather doubt that the Tolkein's copyrights are behind the mystery of the Halflings' origins. D&D were forbidden many literature words because of Gygax/TSR legal sleaziness. TSR illegally and immorally copyrighted words like Hobbit, Axis, Alies and God only knows what else. They used these bogus copyrights to tactically sue start-up competitors at just the right time to drive them out of business with injunctions to block sales for long enough to kill the company, even though the suit had no chance of winning. (Saint) Christopher Tolkein took their sleazy behinds to court and righteously stomped them. Turns out that the Tolkein estate was the sole copyright holder for the word Hobbit. It should be noted that the Tolkein Estate never gave Dave Hargrave any hassle for using Hobbits because he was never an utter dick about it.
Considering things, I like the mystery of it. Yes, I know the story in my version of it, but in other tables, I like the fact that I don't know it all.