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  2. Indigenous peoples of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Chapter II, Section 3h of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 defines "indigenous peoples" (IPs) and "indigenous cultural communities" (ICCs) as: . A group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since ...

  3. Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Traditional homelands of the Indigenous peoples of the Philippines Overview of the spread & overlap of languages spoken throughout the country as of March 2017. There are several opposing theories regarding the origins of ancient Filipinos, starting with the "Waves of Migration" hypothesis of H. Otley Beyer in 1948, which claimed that Filipinos were "Indonesians" and "Malays" who migrated to ...

  4. Filipino name - Wikipedia

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    The Filipino given name Dranreb was invented by reversing the spelling of the English name Bernard, and someone calling himself Nosrac bears the legal name Carson. Joseph Ejército Estrada , the 13th president of the Philippines , began as a movie actor and received his nickname Erap as an adult; it comes from Pare spelled backwards (from ...

  5. List of provincial name etymologies of the Philippines

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    The settlement at the mouth of this river was also called Dabu; a 1628 document renders the native name in Dutch orthography as Daboe. [43] The placename was later rendered in Spanish orthography as Dávao, and this settlement lent its name to the Spanish-era military district and, later, American-era province, of which it served as the capital.

  6. 60 Filipino baby names: popular, traditional and unusual ...

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    10 most popular Filipino girl names with meanings. Althea — with healing power. Angel — angel. Samantha — told by God. Princess — princess. Nathalie — birthday of the Lord.

  7. Aeta people - Wikipedia

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    Aeta (Ayta / ˈ aɪ t ə / EYE-tə), Agta and Dumagat, are collective terms for several indigenous peoples who live in various parts of Luzon islands in the Philippines.They are included in the wider Negrito grouping of the Philippines and the rest of Southeast Asia, with whom they share superficial common physical characteristics such as: dark skin tones; short statures; frizzy to curly hair ...

  8. Tagalog people - Wikipedia

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    The most popular etymology for the endonym "Tagalog" is the term tagá-ilog, which means "people from [along] the river" (the prefix tagá-meaning "coming from" or "native of"). However, the Filipino historian Trinidad Pardo de Tavera in Etimología de los Nombres de Razas de Filipinas (1901) concludes that this origin is linguistically ...

  9. Igorot people - Wikipedia

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    An alternative name of this tribe and its language is "Bugkalot". They are known as a tribe of headhunters. Presently, there are about 87,000 Ilongots. The Ilongots tend to inhabit areas close to rivers, as they provide a food source and a means for transportation. Their native language is the Ilongot language, currently spoken by about 50,000 ...