Filipinos
Filipinos (Filipino: Mga Filipino) are the people who are native to, or identified with the country of the Philippines. Filipinos
Filipinos come from various ethnolinguistic groups. Currently, there are more than 175 ethnolinguistic groups, each with its own language, identity, culture and history. The modern Filipino identity, with its Austronesian roots, was developed in conjunction with Spanish, Chinese and American influences. The Philippines
Philippines was a Spanish colony for 333 years, setting a foundation for contemporary Filipino culture. Under Spanish rule, most of the Filipino populace embraced Roman Catholicism, yet revolted many times against its hierarchy.

Contents

1 Names 2 History

2.1 Prehistory 2.2 Archaic epoch (to 1565)

2.2.1 Historic caste systems

2.3 Hispanic
Hispanic settlement and rule (1521–1898) 2.4 Late modern 2.5 Hispanized caste system

3 Origins and genetic studies 4 Languages 5 Religion 6 Diaspora 7 See also 8 References 9 Publications 10 External links

Names[edit] See also: Name of the Philippines The name Filipino was derived from the term "las Islas Filipinas" ("the Philippine Islands"),[33] the name given to the archipelago in 1543 by the Spanish explorer and Dominican priest Ruy López de Villalobos, in honour of Philip II of Spain
Spain (Spanish: Felipe II). The lack of the letter "F" in the pre-1987 Philippine alphabet, Abakada, had caused the letter "F" to be substituted with "P". Upon official adoption of the modern, 28-letter Filipino alphabet in 1987, the term Filipino was preferred over Pilipino. However the ABAKADA is only the alphabet of the Tagalogs as other ethnic nations also have their own alphabets and/or writing scripts and these other ethnic nations did have the letter "F" in their alphabets. Use of the term "Filipino" in the Philippines
Philippines started during the Spanish colonial period. The original meaning was "a person of Spanish descent born in the Philippines" (a person of Austronesian
Austronesian ancestry and not of Spanish descent was called an "Indio").[34] This original usage is now archaic and obsolete. Historian Ambeth Ocampo
Ambeth Ocampo has suggested that the first documented use of the word to refer to Indios was the Spanish language
Spanish language poem A la juventud filipina, published in 1879 by José Rizal.[35] A number of Filipinos
Filipinos refer to themselves colloquially as "Pinoy" (feminine: "Pinay"), which is a slang word formed by taking the last four letters of "Filipino" and adding the diminutive suffix "-y". The term, although in popular usage, is still considered by some Filipinos as a racial slur and derogatory.[36] Other collective endonyms for the Filipino people include: "Patria Adorada" (Spanish for "Beloved Fatherland") as popularized by Jose Rizal through his poem "Mi último adiós", "Bayang Pilipino" (Tagalog: "Filipino nation") or the more poetic "Sambayanáng Pilipino" (a formal term in Tagalog meaning "one/entire Filipino nation"). History[edit] Main article: History of the Philippines Prehistory[edit] In 2010, a metatarsal from "Callao Man", discovered in 2007, was dated through uranium-series dating as being 67,000 years old.[37] Prior to that, the earliest human remains found in the Philippines were thought to be the fossilized fragments of a skull and jawbone, discovered in the 1960s by Dr. Robert B. Fox, an anthropologist from the National Museum.[38] Anthropologists who examined these remains agreed that they belonged to modern human beings. These include the Homo sapiens, as distinguished from the mid-Pleistocene Homo erectus species. The "Tabon Man" fossils are considered to have come from a third group of inhabitants, who worked the cave between 22,000 and 20,000 BCE. An earlier cave level lies so far below the level containing cooking fire assemblages that it must represent Upper Pleistocene dates like 45 or 50 thousand years ago.[39] Researchers say this indicates that the human remains were pre-Mongoloid, from about 40,000 years ago. Mongoloid
Mongoloid is the term which anthropologists applied to the ethnic group which migrated to Southeast Asia during the Holocene
Holocene period and evolved into the Austronesian people
Austronesian people (associated with the Haplogroup O1 (Y-DNA) genetic marker), a group of Malayo-Polynesian-speaking people including those from Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Malagasy, the non-Chinese Taiwan
Taiwan Aboriginals.[40] Fluctuations in ancient shorelines between 150,000 BC and 17,000 BC connected the Malay Archipelago
Malay Archipelago region with Maritime Southeast Asia and the Philippines. This may have enabled ancient migrations into the Philippines
Philippines from Maritime Southeast Asia
Maritime Southeast Asia approximately 50,000 BC to 13,000 BC.[41] A January 2009 study of language phylogenies by R. D. Gray at the University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles published in the journal Science, suggests that the population expansion of Austronesian peoples was triggered by rising sea levels of the Sunda shelf
Sunda shelf at the end of the last ice age. This was a two-pronged expansion, which moved north through the Philippines
Philippines and into Taiwan, while a second expansion prong spread east along the New Guinea
New Guinea coast and into Oceania and Polynesia.[42] The Negritos are likely descendants of the indigenous populations of the Sunda landmass and New Guinea, pre-dating the Mongoloid
Mongoloid peoples who later entered Southeast Asia.[43] Multiple studies also show that Negritos from Southeast Asia to New Guinea
New Guinea share a closer cranial affinity with Australo-Melanesians.[43][44] They were the ancestors of such tribes of the Philippines
Philippines as the Aeta, Agta, Ayta, Ati, Dumagat and other similar groups. Today they comprise just 0.03% of the total Philippine population.[45] The majority of present-day Filipinos
Filipinos are a product of the long process of evolution and movement of people.[46] After the mass migrations through land bridges, migrations continued by boat during the maritime era of South East Asia. The ancient races became homogenized into the Malayo-Polynesians which colonized the majority of the Philippine, Malaysian and Indonesian archipelagos.[47][48] Archaic epoch (to 1565)[edit]

A painting of a young mother and her child which belong in Maharlika caste and their abode which is the torogan in the background

A Tagalog couple belong in the Maharlika
Maharlika caste described in the Boxer codex.

Since at least the 3rd century, various ethnic groups established several communities. These were formed by the assimilation of various native Philippine kingdoms.[45] South Asian
South Asian and East Asian
East Asian people together with the people of the Indonesian archipelago and the Malay Peninsula, traded with Filipinos
Filipinos and introduced Hinduism
Hinduism and Buddhism to the native tribes of the Philippines. Most of these people stayed in the Philippines
Philippines where they were slowly absorbed into local societies. Many of the barangay (tribal municipalities) were, to a varying extent, under the de jure jurisprudence of one of several neighboring empires, among them the Malay Srivijaya, Javanese Majapahit, Brunei, Malacca, Indian Chola, Champa
Champa and Khmer empires, although de facto had established their own independent system of rule. Trading links with Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Cambodia, Malay Peninsula, Indochina, China, Japan, India
India and Arabia. A thalassocracy had thus emerged based on international trade. Even scattered barangays, through the development of inter-island and international trade, became more culturally homogeneous by the 4th century. Hindu- Buddhist
Buddhist culture and religion flourished among the noblemen in this era. In the period between the 7th to the beginning of the 15th centuries, numerous prosperous centers of trade had emerged, including the Kingdom of Namayan
Namayan which flourished alongside Manila
Manila Bay,[49][49][50] Cebu, Iloilo,[51] Butuan, the Kingdom of Sanfotsi situated in Pangasinan, the Kingdom of Luzon
Luzon now known as Pampanga
Pampanga which specialized in trade with most of what is now known as Southeast Asia, and with China, Japan
Japan and the Kingdom of Ryukyu
Kingdom of Ryukyu in Okinawa. From the 9th century onwards, a large number of Arab
Arab traders from the Middle East settled in the Malay Archipelago
Malay Archipelago and intermarried with the local Malay, Bruneian, Malaysian, Indonesian, and Luzon
Luzon and Visayas indigenous populations.[52] In the years leading up to 1000 AD, there were already several maritime societies existing in the islands but there was no unifying political state encompassing the entire Philippine archipelago. Instead, the region was dotted by numerous semi-autonomous barangays (settlements ranging is size from villages to city-states) under the sovereignty of competing thalassocracies ruled by datus, rajahs or sultans[53] or by upland agricultural societies ruled by "petty plutocrats". States such as the Wangdoms of Ma-i
Ma-i and Pangasinan, Kingdom of Maynila, Namayan, the Kingdom of Tondo, the Kedatuan of Madja-as, the Rajahnates of Butuan
Butuan and Cebu
Cebu and the sultanates of Maguindanao, Lanao and Sulu existed alongside the highland societies of the Ifugao
Ifugao and Mangyan.[54][55][56][57] Some of these regions were part of the Malayan empires of Srivijaya, Majapahit
Majapahit and Brunei.[58][59][60] Historic caste systems[edit] Maginoo
Maginoo – The Tagalog maginoo, the Kapampangan ginu, and the Visayan tumao were the nobility social class among various cultures of the pre-colonial Philippines. Among the Visayans, the tumao were further distinguished from the immediate royal families, the kadatuan or a ruling class. Maharlika
Maharlika – Members of the Tagalog warrior class known as maharlika had the same rights and responsibilities as the timawa, but in times of war they were bound to serve their datu in battle. They had to arm themselves at their own expense, but they did get to keep the loot they won – or stole, depending on which side of the transaction you want to look at. Although they were partly related to the nobility, the maharlikas were technically less free than the timawas because they could not leave a datu’s service without first hosting a large public feast and paying the datu between 6 and 18 pesos in gold – a large sum in those days. Timawa
Timawa – The timawa class were free commoners of Luzon
Luzon and the Visayas who could own their own land and who did not have to pay a regular tribute to a maginoo, though they would, from time to time, be obliged to work on a datu’s land and help in community projects and events. They were free to change their allegiance to another datu if they married into another community or if they decided to move. Alipin
Alipin – Today, the word alipin (or oripun in the Visayas) means slave and that’s how the Spaniards translated it, too, but the alipins were not really slaves in the Western sense of the word. They were not bought and sold in markets with chains around their necks. A better description would be to call them debtors. They could be born alipins, inheriting their parents' debt, and their obligations could be transferred from one master to another. However, it was also possible for them to buy their own freedom. A person in extreme poverty might even want to become an alipin voluntarily – preferably to relatives who saw this as a form of assistance rather than punishment. By the 15th century, Arab
Arab and Indian missionaries and traders from Malaysia
Malaysia and Indonesia
Indonesia brought Islam
Islam to the Philippines, where it both replaced and was practiced together with indigenous religions. Before that, indigenous tribes of the Philippines
Philippines practiced a mixture of Animism, Hinduism
Hinduism and Buddhism. Native villages, called barangays were populated by locals called Timawa
Timawa (Middle Class/ freemen) and Alipin (servants & slaves). They were ruled by Rajahs, Datus and Sultans, a class called Maginoo
Maginoo (royals) and defended by the Maharlika
Maharlika (Lesser nobles, royal warriors and aristocrats).[45] These Royals and Nobles are descended from native Filipinos
Filipinos with varying degrees of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, which is evident in today's DNA analysis among South East Asian
East Asian Royals. This tradition continued among the Spanish and Portuguese traders who also intermarried with the local populations.[61] Hispanic
Hispanic settlement and rule (1521–1898)[edit]

Leaders of the reform movement in Spain: left to right: José Rizal, Marcelo H. del Pilar, and Mariano Ponce
Mariano Ponce (c. 1890)

The Philippines
Philippines were settled by the Spanish, Filipinos
Filipinos are Asians and Hispanic
Hispanic (hispanic in a cultural term not racial, because spaniards and portuguese, hispanics or iberians, are white western europeans). The arrival of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães) in 1521 began a period of European colonization. During the period of Spanish colonialism the Philippines was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which was governed and controlled from Mexico City. Early Spanish settlers were mostly explorers, soldiers, government officials and religious missionaries born in Spain
Spain and Mexico. Most Spaniards who settled were of Andalusian ancestry but there were also Catalan, Moorish and Basque settlers. The Peninsulares (governors born in Spain), mostly of Castilian ancestry, settled in the islands to govern their territory. Most settlers married the daughters of rajahs, datus and sultans to reinforce the colonization of the islands. The Ginoo and Maharlika castes (royals and nobles) in the Philippines
Philippines prior to the arrival of the Spanish formed the privileged Principalía
Principalía (nobility) during the Spanish period. In the 16th and 17th centuries, thousands of Japanese traders also migrated to the Philippines
Philippines and assimilated into the local population.[62] As a part of the Seven Years' War, British forces occupied Manila between 1762 and 1764. However, the only part of the Philippines
Philippines which the British held was the Spanish colonial capital of Manila
Manila and the principal naval port of Cavite, both of which are located on Manila Bay. The war was ended by the Treaty of Paris (1763). At the end of the war the treaty signatories were not aware that Manila
Manila had been taken by the British and was being administered as a British colony. Consequently, no specific provision was made for the Philippines. Instead they fell under the general provision that all other lands not otherwise provided for be returned to the Spanish Empire.[63] Many Indian Sepoy
Sepoy troops and their British captains mutinied and were left in Manila
Manila and some parts of the Ilocos
Ilocos and Cagayan. The ones in Manila settled at Cainta, Rizal
Cainta, Rizal and the ones in the north settled in Isabela. Most were assimilated into the local population. The arrival of the Spaniards to the Philippines
Philippines attracted new waves of immigrants from China, and maritime trade flourished during the Spanish period. The Spanish recruited thousands of Chinese migrant workers called sangleys to build the colonial infrastructure in the islands. Many Chinese immigrants converted to Christianity, intermarried with the locals, and adopted Hispanized names and customs and became assimilated, although the children of unions between Filipinos
Filipinos and Chinese that became assimilated continued to be designated in official records as mestizos de sangley. The Chinese mestizos were largely confined to the Binondo area until the 19th century. However, they eventually spread all over the islands, and became traders, landowners, and moneylenders.

Typical costume of a Principalía
Principalía family of the late 19th century. Exhibit in the Villa Escudero Museum, San Pablo, Laguna, Philippines.

A total of 110 Manila-Acapulco galleons set sail between 1565 and 1815, during the Philippines
Philippines trade with Mexico. Until 1593, three or more ships would set sail annually from each port bringing with them the riches of the archipelago to Spain. European criollos, mestizos and Portuguese, French and Mexican descent from the Americas, mostly from Latin America
Latin America came in contact with the Filipinos. Japanese, Indian and Cambodian Christians who fled from religious persecutions and killing fields also settled in the Philippines
Philippines during the 17th until the 19th centuries. With the inauguration of the Suez Canal
Suez Canal in 1867, Spain
Spain opened the Philippines
Philippines for international trade. European investors such as British, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Russian, Italian and French were among those who settled in the islands as business increased. More Spaniards arrived during the next century. Many of these European migrants intermarried with local mestizos and assimilated with the indigenous population. Late modern[edit] After the defeat of Spain
Spain during the Spanish–American War
Spanish–American War in 1898, Filipino general, Emilio Aguinaldo
Emilio Aguinaldo declared independence on 12 June while General Wesley Merritt
Wesley Merritt became the first American governor of the Philippines. On 10 December 1898, the Treaty of Paris formally ended the war, with Spain
Spain ceding the Philippines
Philippines and other colonies to the United States
United States in exchange for $20 million.[64][65] After the Philippine–American War, the United States
United States civil governance was established in 1901, with William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft as the first American Governor-General.[66] A number of Americans settled in the islands and thousands of interracial marriages between Americans and Filipinos have taken place since then. Due to the strategic location of the Philippines, as many as 21 bases and 100,000 military personnel were stationed there since the United States
United States first colonized the islands in 1898. These bases were decommissioned in 1992 after the end of the Cold War, but left behind thousands of Amerasian
Amerasian children.[67] The country gained independence from the United States
United States in 1946. The Pearl S. Buck International Foundation estimates there are 52,000 Amerasians scattered throughout the Philippines. In addition, numerous Filipino men enlisted in the US Navy and made careers in it, often settling with their families in the United States. Some of their second or third generation-families returned to the country. Following its independence, the Philippines
Philippines has seen both small and large-scale immigration into the country, mostly involving American, European, Chinese and Japanese peoples. After World War II, South Asians continued to migrate into the islands, most of which assimilated and avoided the local social stigma instilled by the early Spaniards against them by keeping a low profile and/or by trying to pass as Spanish mestizos. This was also true for the Arab
Arab and Chinese immigrants, many of whom are also post WWII arrivals. More recent migrations into the country by Koreans, Persians, Brazilians, and other Southeast Asians have contributed to the enrichment of the country's ethnic landscape, language and culture. Centuries of migration, diaspora, assimilation, and cultural diversity made most Filipinos
Filipinos accepting of interracial marriage and multiculturalism. Philippine nationality law
Philippine nationality law is currently based upon the principle of jus sanguinis and, therefore, descent from a parent who is a citizen of the Republic of the Philippines
Philippines is the primary method of acquiring national citizenship. Birth in the Philippines
Philippines to foreign parents does not in itself confer Philippine citizenship, although RA9139, the Administrative Naturalization Law of 2000, does provide a path for administrative naturalization of certain aliens born in the Philippines. Filipinos
Filipinos of mixed ethnic origins are still referred to today as mestizos. However, in common parlance, mestizos are only used to refer to Filipinos
Filipinos mixed with Spanish or any other European ancestry. Filipinos
Filipinos mixed with any other foreign ethnicities are named depending on the non-Filipino part. Hispanized caste system[edit]

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The history of racial mixture in the Philippines
Philippines occurred on a smaller scale than other Spanish territories in the Latin America
Latin America during the Spanish colonial period from the 16th to the 19th century. A caste system, like that used in the Americas
Americas (Spanish America), existed in the Philippines, with some major differences. The indigenous peoples of the Philippines
Philippines were referred to as Indios and Negritos.[citation needed]

Term Definition

Negrito indigenous person of pure Negrito
Negrito ancestry

Indio indigenous person of pure Austronesian
Austronesian ancestry

Moros indigenous person of Islam
Islam in faith living in the Archipelago of the Philippines

Sangley/Chino person of pure Chinese ancestry

Mestizo
Mestizo de Sangley/Chino person of mixed Chinese and Austronesian
Austronesian ancestry

Mestizo
Mestizo de Español person of mixed Spanish and Austronesian
Austronesian ancestry

Tornatrás person of mixed Spanish, Austronesian
Austronesian and Chinese ancestry

Insulares/Filipino person of pure Spanish descent born in the Philippines

Americanos person of Criollo (either pure Spanish blood, or mostly), Castizo
Castizo (1/4 Native American, 3/4 Spanish) or Mestizo
Mestizo (1/2 Spanish, 1/2 Native American) descent born in Spanish America ("from the Americas")

Peninsulares person of pure Spanish descent born in Spain
Spain ("from the Iberian peninsula")

Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero, the only Spanish prime minister of Insulares(Filipino) descent

People classified as 'blancos' (whites) were the insulares or "Filipinos" (a person born in the Philippines
Philippines of pure Spanish descent), peninsulares (a person born in Spain
Spain of pure Spanish descent), Español mestizos (a person born in the Philippines
Philippines of mixed Austronesian
Austronesian and Spanish ancestry), and tornatrás (a person born in the Philippines
Philippines of mixed Austronesian, Chinese and Spanish ancestry). Manila
Manila was racially segregated, with blancos living in the walled city of Intramuros, un-Christianized sangleys in Parían, Christianized sangleys and mestizos de sangley in Binondo, and the rest of the 7,000 islands for the indios, with the exception of Cebu
Cebu and several other Spanish posts. Only mestizos de sangley were allowed to enter Intramuros
Intramuros to work for whites (including mestizos de español) as servants and various occupations needed for the colony. Indio were native Austronesians, but as a legal classification, Indio were those who embraced Roman Catholicism and Austronesians
Austronesians who lived in proximity to the Spanish colonies.[citation needed]

Manuel L. Quezon
Manuel L. Quezon was the Philippine President during the Commonwealth era.

People who lived outside Manila, Cebu
Cebu and the major Spanish posts were classified as such: 'Naturales' were Catholic Austronesians
Austronesians of the lowland and coastal towns. The un-Catholic Negritos and Austronesians who lived in the towns were classified as 'salvajes' (savages) or 'infieles' (the unfaithful). 'Remontados' (Spanish for 'situated in the mountains') and 'tulisanes' (bandits) were indigenous Austronesians
Austronesians and Negritos who refused to live in towns and took to the hills, all of whom were considered to live outside the social order as Catholicism was a driving force in Spanish colonials everyday life, as well as determining social class in the colony. People of pure Spanish descent living in the Philippines
Philippines who were born in Spanish America were classified as 'americanos'. Mestizos and africanos born in Spanish America living in the Philippines
Philippines kept their legal classification as such, and usually came as indentured servants to the 'americanos'. The Philippine-born children of 'americanos' were classified as 'Ins'. The Philippine-born children of mestizos and Africanos from Spanish America were classified based on patrilineal descent.

A mestiza de sangley woman in a photograph by Francisco Van Camp, c. 1875

The term negrito was coined by the Spaniards based on their appearance. The word 'negrito' would be misinterpreted and used by future European scholars as an ethnoracial term in and of itself. Both Christianized negritos who lived in the colony and un-Christianized negritos who lived in tribes outside the colony were classified as 'negritos'. Christianized negritos who lived in Manila
Manila were not allowed to enter Intramuros
Intramuros and lived in areas designated for indios. A person of mixed Negrito
Negrito and Austronesian
Austronesian ancestry were classified based on patrilineal descent; the father's ancestry determined a child's legal classification. If the father was 'negrito' and the mother was 'India' (Austronesian), the child was classified as 'negrito'. If the father was 'indio' and the mother was 'negrita', the child was classified as 'indio'. Persons of Negrito
Negrito descent were viewed as being outside the social order as they usually lived in tribes outside the colony and resisted conversion to Christianity. This legal system of racial classification based on patrilineal descent had no parallel anywhere in the Spanish-ruled colonies in the Americas. In general, a son born of a sangley male and an indio or mestizo de sangley female was classified as mestizo de sangley; all subsequent male descendants were mestizos de sangley regardless of whether they married an India
India or a mestiza de sangley. A daughter born in such a manner, however, acquired the legal classification of her husband, i.e., she became an India
India if she married an indio but remained a mestiza de sangley if she married a mestizo de sangley or a sangley. In this way, a chino mestizo male descendant of a paternal sangley ancestor never lost his legal status as a mestizo de sangley no matter how little percentage of Chinese blood he had in his veins or how many generations had passed since his first Chinese ancestor; he was thus a mestizo de sangley in perpetuity. However, a 'mestiza de sangley' who married a blanco ('Filipino', 'mestizo de español', 'peninsular', or 'americano') kept her status as 'mestiza de sangley'. But her children were classified as tornatrás. An 'India' who married a blanco also kept her status as India, but her children were classified as mestizo de español. A mestiza de español who married another blanco would keep her status as mestiza, But her status will never change from mestiza de español if she married a mestizo de español, Filipino, or peninsular. On the contrast, a mestizo (de sangley or español) man's status stayed the same regardless of whom he married. If a mestizo (de sangley or español) married a filipina (woman of pure Spanish descent), she would lose her status as a 'filipina' and would acquire the legal status of her husband and become a mestiza de español or sangley. If a 'filipina' married an 'indio', her legal status would change to 'India', despite being of pure Spanish descent. The social stratification system based on class that continues to this day in the Philippines
Philippines has its beginnings in the Spanish colonial area with this caste system. The Spanish colonizers reserved the term Filipino to refer to Spaniards born in the Philippines. The use of the term was later extended to include Spanish and Chinese mestizos, or those born of mixed Chinese-indio or Spanish-indio descent. Late in the 19th century, Jose Rizal
Jose Rizal popularized the use of the term Filipino to refer to all those born in the Philippines, including the Indios.[68] When ordered to sign the notification of his death sentence, which described him as a Chinese mestizo, Rizal refused. He went to his death saying that he was indio puro.[69][68] The Spanish caste system based on race was abolished after the Philippines' independence from Spain
Spain in 1898, and the word 'Filipino' expanded to include the entire population of the Philippines regardless of racial ancestry.[clarification needed][citation needed] Origins and genetic studies[edit]

Migration of the Austronesian peoples
Austronesian peoples and their languages based on archaeological studies

See also: Models of migration to the Philippines, Demographics of the Philippines, and Ethnic groups in the Philippines The majority of Filipinos
Filipinos are Austronesians, a linguistic and genetic group that includes other ethnicities from maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and the Pacific islands.[70] The current predominant theory on Austronesian
Austronesian expansion holds that Austronesians
Austronesians settled the Philippine islands through successive southward and eastward seaborne migrations from the Neolithic
Neolithic Austronesian
Austronesian populations of Taiwan.[71] Other hypotheses have also been put forward based on linguistic, archeological, and genetic studies. These include an origin from mainland South China
China (linking them to the Liangzhu culture
Liangzhu culture and the Tapengkeng culture, later displaced or assimilated by the expansion of Sino-Tibetan peoples);[72][73] an in situ origin from the Sundaland continental shelf prior to the sea level rise at the end of the last glacial period (c. 10,000 BC);[74][75] or a combination of the two (the Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Network hypothesis) which advocates cultural diffusion rather than a series of linear migrations.[76] The most frequently occurring Y-DNA haplogroups among modern Filipinos are haplogroup O1a-M119, which has been found with maximal frequency among the indigenous peoples of Nias, the Mentawai Islands, and Taiwan, and Haplogroup O2-M122, which is found with high frequency in many populations of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Polynesia. In particular, the type of O2-M122 that is found frequently in Filipinos, O-P164(xM134), is also found frequently in other Austronesian populations.[77][78] Haplogroup O1a-M119 is also commonly found among Filipinos
Filipinos and is shared with other Austronesian-speaking populations, especially those in Taiwan, western Indonesia, and Madagascar.[79][80] After the 16th century, the colonial period saw the influx of genetic influence from other populations. This is evidenced by the presence of the Y-DNA Haplogroup R1b
Haplogroup R1b which is present among the population of the Philippines. Languages[edit] Main articles: Languages of the Philippines
Philippines and Philippine languages

The indigenous, native Philippine languages
Philippine languages spoken around the country that have the largest number of speakers in a particular region with Tagalog being the largest. Note that on regions marked with black diamonds, the language with the most number of speakers denotes a minority of the population.

Universidad de Sta. Isabel, founded in 1867 through the royal order of Queen Isabella II of Spain

Austronesian
Austronesian languages have been spoken in the Philippines
Philippines for thousands of years. According to a 2014 study by Mark Donohue of the Australian National University and Tim Denham of Monash University, there is no linguistic evidence for an orderly north-to-south dispersal of the Austronesian
Austronesian languages from Taiwan
Taiwan through the Philippines
Philippines and into Island Southeast Asia (ISEA).[74] Many adopted words from Sanskrit
Sanskrit were incorporated during the strong wave of Indian (Hindu-Buddhist) cultural influence starting from the 5th century BC, in common with its Southeast Asian neighbours. Starting in the second half of the 16th century, Spanish was the official language of the country for the more than three centuries that the islands were governed through Mexico City
Mexico City on behalf of the Spanish Empire. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Spanish was the preferred language among Ilustrados
Ilustrados and educated Filipinos
Filipinos in general. Significant agreements exist, however, on the extent Spanish use beyond that. It has been argued that the Philippines
Philippines were less hispanized than Canaries and America, with Spanish only being adopted by the ruling class involved in civil and judicial administration and culture. Spanish was the language of only approximately ten percent of the Philippine population when Spanish rule ended in 1898.[81] As a lingua franca or creole language of Filipinos, major languages of the country like Chavacano, Cebuano, Tagalog, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Bicolano, Hiligaynon, and Ilocano assimilated many different words and expressions from Castilian Spanish. Chavacano
Chavacano is the only Spanish-based creole language in Asia. Its vocabulary is 90 percent Spanish, and the remaining 10 percent is a mixture of predominantly Portuguese, Nahuatl
Nahuatl (Mexican Indian), Hiligaynon, and some English. Chavacano
Chavacano is considered by the Instituto Cervantes to be a Spanish-based language.[82][not in citation given] In sharp contrast, another view is that the ratio of the population which spoke Spanish as their mother tongue in the last decade of Spanish rule was 10% or 14%.[83] An additional 60% is said to have spoken Spanish as a second language until World War II, but this is also disputed as to whether this percentage spoke "kitchen Spanish," which was used as marketplace lingua compared to those who were actual fluent Spanish speakers.[83] In 1863 a Spanish decree introduced universal education, creating free public schooling in Spanish, yet it was never implemented, even before the advent of American annexation.[84] It was also the language of the Philippine Revolution, and the 1899 Malolos Constitution
Malolos Constitution proclaimed it as the "official language" of the First Philippine Republic, albeit a temporary official language. Spanish continued to be the predominant lingua franca used in the islands by the elite class before and during the American colonial regime. Following the American occupation of the Philippines
Philippines and the imposition of English, the overall use of Spanish declined gradually, especially after the 1940s. According to Ethnologue, there are about 180 languages spoken in the Philippines.[85] The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines
Philippines impose Filipino[86][87] as the national language and designates, along with English, as one of the official languages. Regional languages are designated as auxiliary official languages. The constitution also provides that Spanish and Arabic shall be promoted on a voluntary and optional basis.[88] Other Philippine languages
Philippine languages in the country with at least 1,000,000 native and indigenous speakers include Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Central Bikol, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Chavacano (Spanish-based creole), Albay Bikol, Maranao, Maguindanao, Kinaray-a, Tausug, Surigaonon, Masbateño, Aklanon and Ibanag. The 28-letter modern Filipino alphabet, adopted in 1987, is the official writing system. Also, language of each ethnicity has also their own writing scripts, which are no longer used and set of alphabets.[89] Religion[edit] Main article: Religion in the Philippines

Devotees flock to the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño
Basilica Minore del Santo Niño during the novena masses.

Devotees inside the Bascilica del Santo Niño in Cebu
Cebu City.

As of 2010[update], over 90% of the population were Christians, with over 80% professing Roman Catholicism.[90] The latter was introduced by the Spanish beginning in 1565, and during their 300-year colonization of the islands, they managed to convert a vast majority of Filipinos, resulting in the Philippines
Philippines becoming the largest Catholic country in Asia. There are also large groups of Protestant denominations, which either grew or were founded following the disestablishment of the Catholic Church
Catholic Church during the American Colonial period. The Iglesia ni Cristo
Iglesia ni Cristo is currently the single largest indigenous church, followed by United Church of Christ
United Church of Christ in the Philippines. The Iglesia Filipina Independiente
Iglesia Filipina Independiente (also known as the Aglipayan Church) was an earlier development, and is a national church directly resulting from the 1898 Philippine Revolution. Other Christian groups such as the Victory Church,[91] Jesus Miracle Crusade, Mormonism, Orthodoxy, and the Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses have a visible presence in the country. Other native inhabitants follow Islam, forming a large minority. Islam
Islam in the Philippines
Philippines is mostly concentrated in southwestern Mindanao
Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago
Sulu Archipelago which, though part of the Philippines, are very close to the neighboring Islamic countries of Malaysia
Malaysia and Indonesia. The Muslims call themselves Moros, a Spanish word that refers to the Moors
Moors (albeit the two groups have little cultural connection other than Islam). Historically, ancient Filipinos
Filipinos held animistic beliefs that were influenced by Hinduism
Hinduism and Buddhism, which were brought by traders from neighbouring Asian states. Indigenous groups like the Aeta
Aeta are Animists, while Igorot
Igorot and Lumad
Lumad tribes still observe traditional religious practises, often alongside Christianity
Christianity or Islam. As of 2013[update], religious groups together constituting less than five percent of the population included Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Seventh-day Adventists, United Church of Christ, United Methodists, the Episcopal Church in the Philippines, Assemblies of God, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), and Philippine (Southern) Baptists; and the following domestically established churches: Iglesia ni Cristo
Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ), Philippine Independent Church (Aglipayan), Members Church of God International, and The Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the Name Above Every Name. In addition, there are Lumad, who are indigenous peoples of various animistic and syncretic religions.[92] Diaspora[edit] Main article: Overseas Filipinos

Filipino migrant workers in Victoria Park in Hong Kong

There are currently more than 10 million Filipinos
Filipinos who live overseas. Filipinos
Filipinos form a minority ethnic group in the Americas, Europe, Oceania,[93][94] the Middle East, and other regions in the world. There are an estimated 3.4 million Americans of Filipino ancestry in the United States, and more than 300,000 American citizens in the Philippines.[95] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, immigrants from the Philippines
Philippines made up the second largest group after Mexico that sought family reunification.[96] Filipinos
Filipinos make up about half of the entire population of the Northern Marianas Islands, an American territory in the North Pacific Ocean, and a large proportion of the populations of Guam, Palau, the British Indian Ocean Territory, and Sabah.[94] See also[edit]

Pinoy Philippines Demographics of the Philippines Ethnic groups in the Philippines Philippine nationality law List of rulers of the Philippines List of Filipino athletes List of Filipino actors List of Filipino actresses List of Filipino writers Overseas Filipinos Filipino cuisine Philippine music Philippine cinema

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