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As of July 1, 2005, the population of the Philippines is estimated to be 87,857,473. ...
The Kapampangan, also called Pampangan, are a people of the Philippines. ...
The Pangasinense people are the eighth largest Filipino ethnic group. ...
The Sambal people, also spelled Zambal form one of the most important Filipino ethnicities. ...
The Tagalogs are the largest Filipino ethnic group. ...
The Bicolanos are the fifth largest Filipino ethnic group. ...
Igorot is a Tagalog word for mountain people and denotes the inhabitants of the mountains of central Luzon. ...
There are about nine indigenous Ethnic Groups in Palawan. ...
The Hiligaynon people, or HIligaynons, are the indigenous inhabitants of the large coastal plain if East Panay island. ...
The Karay-as, or Southwestern Visayans, or, Hamtikanon, form the seventeenth largest Filipino ethnic group. ...
The Cebuano, or Central Visayan people, form the second largest Filipino ethnic group. ...
The Waray people form the sixth largest Filipino ethnic group. ...
The Romblomanon people are the indigenous inhabitants of Romblon province. ...
The Masbatenyo people form the thirteenth largest Filipino ethnic group. ...
The Butuanon people are the least populated Visayan tribe. ...
There are about nineteen general Hilltribes of Mindanao, all of which are of Austronesian descent. ...
The Bajau are an indigenous ethnic group residing in Sabah, eastern Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia. ...
The Maguindanao are the ninrth largest Filipino ethnic group. ...
Maranao is the name of the people of Lanao, a predominantly Muslim region in the Philippine island of Mindanao. ...
Semang, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago The Negritos include the Ati, the Aeta and at least 4 other tribes of the Philippines, the Semang of the Malay peninsula, and 12 Andamanese tribes of the Andaman Islands. ...
Filipino Mestizos, or Filipino Mestisos, are Filipinos of mixed ethnic background. ...
According to a recent survey, Arabs in the Philippines number about 22,000. ...
According to a recent survey, Europeans in the Philippines number about 13,661, excluding Spaniards and Basques. ...
| | According to recent survey, the number of South Asians in the Philippines are approximately 32,500 people. Not included in this list are the mixed Filipino-South Asian people. The presence of South Asians in the Philippines have been ongoing since the Prehistoric times, predating even the coming of the Europeans by at least two centuries. However, this is a paradox, since there is still an absence of Tagalog words for the South Asians. The term Bumbay, loosely applied to all South Asians in the country, regardless of ethnicity or religion, was borrowed from the Bahasa Malaysian term Bombay. It is considered derogatory. The Malay language, also known locally as Bahasa Melayu, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people who are native to the Malay peninsula, southern Thailand, Singapore and parts of Sumatra. ...
Ethnic and Religious affinities
The largest South Asian community would be the Sindhi, who number around 21,000. Followed by the Punjabi, numbering about 10,000. Urdu-speaking Pakistanis number around 21,000. There are some seasonal Marathi, Nepali, and Tamil settlers in the Philippines. Generally, the South Asian community in the Philippines can speak excellent English, as well as Filipino. Only few South Asians, such as Pakistani, as well as the recent newcomers like the Marathi, Nepali, and Tamil retain their own native languages. The Philippines is the seventh largest Hindu country. Most South Asians in the Philippines practice Hinduism, while some practice Sikhism and Islam. A few, particularly the Marathi and Nepali, are Roman Catholics and Protestants, respectively. Sindhi refers to an ethnic group of people originating in Sindh which is part of present day Pakistan. ...
Punjabi (sometimes spelled Panjabi) is the language of the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. ...
Urdu (اردو) is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family which developed under Persian influence in the Indian subcontinent during the time of the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire. ...
Marathi is one of the widely spoken languages of India, and has a long literary history. ...
Nepali could mean: Nepali — A citizen of the country of Nepal. ...
Tamil may refer to: The Tamil language, which is one of the Dravidian languages spoken in the Indian subcontinent. ...
Look up English in Wiktionary, the free dictionary As an adjective, English refers to anything from or pertaining to England. ...
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