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  2. Creole peoples - Wikipedia

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    The English word creole derives from the French créole, which in turn came from Portuguese crioulo, a diminutive of cria meaning a person raised in one's house.Cria is derived from criar, meaning "to raise or bring up", itself derived from the Latin creare, meaning "to make, bring forth, produce, beget"; which is also the source of the English word "create".

  3. Zamboangueño people - Wikipedia

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    He was known as the "enfant terrible of Philippine art" in the 1960s, and his good looks and writings dubbed him the Byron of Philippine literature. Hidilyn Diaz [11] (born February 20, 1991) is a Filipino weightlifter. She competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics and was also the youngest competitor in the women's 58-kg category in that same ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Criollo people - Wikipedia

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    Argentine caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas, an example of a criollo of full-Spanish descent. The word criollo and its Portuguese cognate crioulo are believed by some scholars, including the eminent Mexican anthropologist Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán, to derive from the Spanish/Portuguese verb criar, meaning 'to breed' or 'to raise'; however, no evidence supports this derivation in early Spanish ...

  6. Louisiana Creole people - Wikipedia

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    Map of North America in 1750, before the French and Indian War (part of the international Seven Years' War (1756 to 1763)). The Flag of French Louisiana. Through both the French and Spanish (late 18th century) regimes, parochial and colonial governments used the term Creole for ethnic French and Spanish people born in the New World.

  7. Creole - Wikipedia

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    Creole peoples, ethnic groups which originated from linguistic, cultural, and often racial mixing of colonial-era emigrants from Europe with non-European peoples Criollo people , the historic name of people of full or near full Spanish descent in Colonial Hispanic America and the Spanish East Indies.

  8. Chavacano - Wikipedia

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    In contrast with the other varieties, there is rarely a Zamboangueño verb that is based on or has its origin from other Philippine languages. Hence, verbs contribute much of the Spanish vocabulary in Chavacano de Zamboanga. Generally, the simple form of the Zamboangueño verb is based upon the infinitive of the Spanish verb, minus the final /r/.

  9. Demographics of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The first census in the Philippines was held in the year 1591 which counted 667,612 people. [8] The majority of Filipinos are lowland Austronesians, [9] while the Aetas , as well as other highland groups form a minority. The indigenous population is related to the indigenous populations of the Malay Archipelago.