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As with many other provinces created during the Spanish colonial era, the name of the capital town was applied to the whole province. Apayao. apa'yaw, a word in various Cordilleran languages meaning "overtaking," in reference to the swift-flowing river that drains the mountainous terrain inhabited by the Isneg ethnic group. [10]
The term "Mansaka" derives from "man" with literal meaning "first" and "saka" meaning "to ascend," and means "the first people to ascend mountains/upstream." The term most likely describes the origin of these people who are found today in Davao del Norte and Davao del Sur.
The indigenous peoples of the Cordillera in northern Luzon, Philippines, often referred to by the exonym Igorot people, [2] or more recently, as the Cordilleran peoples, [2] are an ethnic group composed of nine main ethnolinguistic groups whose domains are in the Cordillera Mountain Range, altogether numbering about 1.8 million people in the early 21st century.
(See List of words derived from toponyms.) In cases where two or more adjectival forms are given, there is often a subtle difference in usage between the two. This is particularly the case with Central Asian countries, where one form tends to relate to the nation and the other tends to relate to the predominant ethnic group (e.g. Uzbek is ...
The term "Dumagat" or "Dumaget" is an exonym meaning "[people] from Magat River." The Luzon Dumagats are not to be confused with the etymology of the Visayan Dumagat ("sea people", from the root word dagat - "sea") who dwell in the coastal areas of Mindanao, contrasting them from inland Lumad. [6] Other exonyms of the Aeta are more derogatory.
In addition to these labels, groups and individuals sometimes identify with the Tagalog term katutubo, which denotes any person of indigenous origin. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] According to the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino , there are 135 recognized local indigenous Austronesian languages in the Philippines, of which one ( Tagalog ) is vehicular and each ...
After the Philippines' independence from Spain in 1898 and the word Filipino "officially" became a nationality that includes the entire population of the Philippines regardless of racial ancestry, as per the Philippine nationality law and as described by Wenceslao Retana's Diccionario de filipinismos, where he defined Filipinos as follows, [69]
Japanese depiction of Luzones in 1671. Luzones (Portuguese: Luções, pronounced; also Luzones in Spanish) was a demonym [1] used by Portuguese sailors. [2] during the early 1500s, referring to the Kapampangan and Tagalog people who lived in Manila Bay, Philippines which was then called Lusong (Kapampangan: Lusung, Portuguese: Luçon).