Sangley (English plural: Sangleys; Spanish plural: Sangleyes) and Mestizo de Sangley (Sangley mestizo, mestisong Sangley, chino mestizo or Chinese mestizo) are archaic terms used in the Philippines to describe a person of pure overseas Chinese ancestry, or Mestizo de Sangley, which are persons of mixed Chinese and native Filipino ancestry (the latter were referred to in Spanish: Indio, lit. 'Indian', as natives of the East Indies) respectively during the Spanish Colonial Era in the Philippines. The Sangley Chinese were ancestors to both modern Chinese Filipinos and modern Filipino mestizo descendants of the Mestizos de Sangley. (These were Chinese mestizos, mixed descendants of Sangley Chinese and native Filipinos), who were mestizos (mixed peoples) under the Spanish Colonial Empire, class