Indigenous Groups In Philippines

A group of indigenous people of the southern philippines.

Indigenous groups in philippines. The indigenous people living in the northern part of the country are called the igorots whereas those non muslim indigenous tribes living in the south are referred to as lumad. It is a cebuano term meaning native or indigenous. The negritos were the first ethnic group to have arrived on the various islands of the philippines. Many of these nations converted to christianity particularly the lowland coastal nations and adopted foreign elements of culture ethnolinguistic nations include the ilocano ivatan pangasinan kapampangan tagalog bicolano visayans aklanon boholano butuanon.

However an official figure for the indigenous peoples of the philippines has yet arrived and it is estimated that the country s indigenous population is between 10 and 20 of the national population which currently stands at around 102 9 million. The philippine constitution in recognition of this diversity and under the framework of national unity. The philippines is one of the world s largest island countries. This section features a variety of peoples including ethnic and ethnolinguistic groups found in the philippines.

Ethnic groups in the philippines. There are two main ethnic groups comprising several upland and lowland indigenous tribes living within the philippines from the northern and southern parts of the philippines. They are mainly concentrated in northern luzon cordillera administrative region 33 and mindanao 61 with some groups in the visayas area. Much is unknown regarding the history of the tagalogs prior to the spanish colonization of the philippine islands in the 16th century.

Here is a list of the largest ethnic groups in the country. We attempt to display a large representation of peoples across the country. The philippines is inhabited by more than 175 ethnolinguistic nations the majority of whose languages are austronesian in origin. The last census of 2010 included an ethnic variable for the first time.

They were followed by the austronesian people who sailed in boats across the taiwan strait to inhabit the polynesian islands the malay archipelago and madagascar in the prehistoric period. The philippines consist of numerous upland and lowland indigenous ethnolinguistic groups living in the country with austronesians making up the overwhelming majority while full or partial australo melanesians scattered throughout the archipelago. The term is short for katawhang lumad literally indigenous peoples the autonym officially adopted by the delegates of the lumad mindanaw peoples federation lmpf founding assembly on 26 june 1986 at the guadalupe formation center balindog kidapawan cotabato. The philippines is a culturally diverse country with an estimated 14 17 million indigenous peoples ips belonging to 110 ethno linguistic groups.

We have included well known ethnic groups ethnolinguistic groups and immigrant groups as well as some groups that are relatively small and in some cases on the verge of extinction.