CHAPTER 1 Flashcards
The country’s total land area is
115,124 square miles
The Philippine archipelago’s location at the far
southeastern edge of Asia
The current population of the Philippines is___________ at mid year or 2023, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.
117,337,368
The archipelago is made up of over_______islands of which only 460 are more than one square mile (2km square) in area.
The rest of the islands are inhabitable, and some disappear at high tide.
7,100
is ethnically and geographically divided into a number of subregions and is the home to three of the country’s six major language dialects
Luzon
The islands at the center of the country are known as ______ and include the long thin island of Cebu which was the 1521 landing spot for Ferdinand Magellan during his exploratory voyage around the world and where he lost his life in a battle with a local chieftain.
Visayas
To the far South is the large island of _______that extends from a southwesterly arm known as______ up to the main portion of the massive island that is a home to uneasily mixed population of non-Christian tribal groups, indigenous Muslims and recent Filipino Christian migrants.
Mindanao , Sulu archipelago
is very diverse geographically with a number of major river basins, gulfs, and bays, and it is known to a number of ethno-linguistic groups.
Mindanao
Majority of the population is the Christianized ______ Filipinos.
“lowland”
Filipinos are usually differentiated or distinguished according to which ______ they speak.
dialect
The distinction being that the dialects are variations of a single linguistic root, since they all belong to the _______language Family.
Malayo-Polynesian
people today prefer to call the Malayo-Polynesian family the “Austronesian” family.
Malayo-Polynesian Language -
The language is geographically concentrated in the South Pacific islands and parts of southern Asia including the Philippines, Madagascar, much of Malaysia, and the Central and South Pacific island groups (excluding Australia)
Malayo-Polynesian Language -
_______on Mindanao identify themselves by geographic residences; the Muslim people base their identity on religion, and the nation’ s indigenous peoples, whose pre-Christian and pre-Islamic religious beliefs and cultures give them distinct identities.
Filipino Christian
live in the metropolitan Manila area and adjacent regions of Central Luzon to the north and southern Tagalog provinces to the south.
Tagalog speakers
the basis of Pilipino/Filipino, which over the last few decades has made real progress in becoming a true national language, despite the resistance of other dialects whose speakers resent the Manila/Tagalog dominance of the nations political, economic and cultural life.
Tagalog forms
which covered the provinces ofBataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac and Zambalesand two highly urbanized cities (Angeles City and Olongapo City)
Central Luzon,
which covered the provinces of Batangas, Cavite, Laguna, Marinduque, Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Palawan, Quezon, Rizal, Romblon and Aurora and the highly urbanized City of Lucena
Southern Tagalog
is the native dialect of the Filipinos living along the coastal plains and agricultural valleys of northern Luzon.
Ilocano
have a reputation for being very hard working and extremely frugal.
Ilocanos
_______ are known for their spicy foods that make abundant use of chili peppers and their consumption of the coconut vodka ______
Bicolanos, lambanog.
Linguistically, the ________ are divided into a number of dialects: Ilongo of Panay Island, Cebuano from Cebu, and Waray-Waray spoken on the islands of Leyte and Samar.
Visayan Islands
Most ______ population is comprised of relatively recent migrants, who came from all over the Philippines to settle in this second largest island in the country.
Mindanao’s Christian
