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  2. Malay language in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The dynasties of the Islamic sultanates in Mindanao were themselves of ethnic Malay descent with sprinkles of Arab ancestry [1] (others possess some Persian and Indian blood) such as those of the Sultanate of Maguindanao. Malay became the regional lingua franca of trade and many polities enculturated Islamic Malay customs and governance to ...

  3. List of provincial name etymologies of the Philippines

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    This occurs in other Spanish loanwords: jabón ("soap") entered the Filipino vocabulary as sabon and reloj ("watch") as relos. The term Sulu has also been applied to the historical sultanate that was centered in the province, as well as the archipelago and the sea over which the sultanate formerly held sway. [112] Surigao (del Norte and del Sur)

  4. List of Philippine city name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Spanish for "The Pineapples"; the city's old name however is "Las Peñas" meaning "The Rocks". [22] Legazpi: Albay: Miguel López de Legazpi, the first Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines. Ligao: Albay: from ticao, a Bicolano word for a tree with poisonous leaves. Lipa: Batangas: from lipa, a Philippine linden tree. Lucena: none

  5. Filipinos of Malay descent - Wikipedia

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    This steel plate was written in a mix of Old Tagalog, Old Malay and Javanese. Among the Malays, the classical Philippine kingdoms also interacted with other native peoples of Indonesia, including the Minangkabau and Javanese. The first-recorded Malay in Philippine history was Sri Lumay, although accounts him are mostly in Visayan folklore.

  6. List of recorded monarchs in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Both these terms refer to the Tausug people, the first being an endonym and the second an exonym, besides being the name of the sultanate itself. Jolo is another term that serves this approximation (initially pronounced as /Sho-lo/ in Spanish). The primary language of the Sultanate of Sulu is Tausug, with Malay and Arabic as secondary languages.

  7. Tondo (historical polity) - Wikipedia

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    In early Philippine history, the Tagalog and Kapampangan settlement at Tondo (Tagalog:; Baybayin: ᜆᜓᜈ᜔ᜇᜓ, kapampangan: Balayan ning Tundo), sometimes referred to as the Kingdom of Tondo, was a major trade hub located on the northern part of the Pasig River delta on Luzon island.

  8. Maynila (historical polity) - Wikipedia

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    It was because of this relationship that the Tagalog language used in Maynila began absorbing Malay words into their own vocabulary. Somewhere in the early 16th century, the ruler of Maynila, Rajah Salalila or Panguiran Salalila, was married to a daughter of Sultan Bolkiah and princess Puteri Laila Menchanai of Sulu. [ 47 ]

  9. Cebu (historical polity) - Wikipedia

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    The Rajahnate of Maynila, which was a colony of the Brunei Sultanate [25] and would later become the city of Maynila [25] had an arrogant attitude against Cebuanos and Visayans as the rajah of Maynila who had an Islamic name, Rajah Sulayman, ridiculed the Visayans that came and assisted the Miguel de Legaspi expedition (Which also included the ...