Midterm Flashcards
When it comes to marriage these people is just having a little banquet and preaching to their child. There is no ceremony that the parent of the bride and groom talk only, and their child instantly become married.
Dumagat
Surrounded by the lush rice terraces within the Cordillera region, the municipality of Natonin is home of this indigenous group.
Balangao
This tribe living in one community is consists of two social classes,the rich called Kadangyan and the poor referred to as Kodo.
Applai
Comprised a large group in the Cagayan Valley region and are mostly found in Central Isabela, Nueva Vizaya, Quirino, and Cagayan. Most of them can also speak Ilocano, the lingua franca of Northern Luzon; their language is closely related to Agta, Atta, Ibanag, Isneg, Itawis, Malaweg, and Yogad.
Gaddang
This a small ethnic group living in the municipalities of Bambang and Nueva Vizcaya, as well as in Dupax Sur, Quirino province. Their ethnic communities show a decline in population, with only around 12,600 members on record.
Isinai
Also known as Kalanguya (Kalangoya) inhabit the provinces of Benguet in the Cordillera Administrative Region as well as in Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya, and Pangasinan. This ethnolinguistic group was formerly named as Keley’I, Kalanggutan, Yatukka or Mandek’ey
Ikalahan
Are a proud people with proto-Malayan features and with a strong social structure enabled them, as a group, to integrate with the main body politic while retaining much of their indigenous customs, beliefs, and values.
Bagobo
Tucked away in the Sierra Madre Mountain range, primarily in the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya, Nueva Ecija, Isabela, Quirino, and Aurora. The name of the tribe is derived from the root word kalot meaning “interwoven,” although the tribe is more popularly known to outsiders as Ilongots, meaning “headhunters.”
Bugkalot/Ilongot
Benguet, Ifugao, Mountain Province, Kalinga, and Apayao in northern Luzon. Their population is spread over 10 municipalities and 137 barrios, and each village has its own distinct dialect, some of which are Sadanga, Guinaang Bontoc, and Bayyu
Bontoc
It inhabit southeastern Benguet in the Cordillera Administrative Region; they are concentrated in Kabayan, Bukod, Tuba, Itogon, Tublay, La Trinidad, Sablan, and Atok. Like the Southern Kankanaey, they are also called Benguet. Their language has a linguistic sound that is close to Pangasinense, the language of Pangasinan Province, possibly due to the free movement of the natives of Pangasinan in the pre-Spanish era
Ibaloi
Both men and women traditionally covered their bodies with tattoos, although the men were only allowed to after having killed enemies in inter-tribal conflicts. Women wear bright red hand-woven skirts and used distinctive pieces of snake skeleton as hairpieces.
Bontoc
One of the oldest inhabitants of Cagayan Valley in northern Luzon, can be found in the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, and Nueva Vizcaya. The term originated from i (“people of”) and bannag (river), which pretty much describes where they chose to settle.
Ibanag
Their residences are elevated and supported with tall posts of wood or bamboo that include a removable ladder that can be drawn up day and/or night to avoid intruders or enemies.
Gaddang
The household,hampangabungan, is the basic social and economic unit of this ethnic group, consisting of the husband, wife, their children, and, if any, elderly parents of both sides residing in the same house, simultaneously, sharing the day-to-day tasks.
Ikalahan
“MAEDUP” word means “mabuhay”.
Dumagat
This ethnic group have society recognized two classes of people: The rich, baknang or kadangyan, and the poor, biteg or abiteng; the distinction, however, oft times difficult to determine.
Ikalahan
The the first known group of people who lives in Dingalan.
Dumagat
The earliest residents of Apayao Province (Cordillera Administrative Region) and one of the remaining tribes in Luzon, a small ethnoliguistic group inhabiting the wide mountains of the area.
Isneg
The Spaniards referred to them as los Apayaos (referring to the river along which they live) and los Mandayas (taken from the Isneg term meaning “upstream”). Isnag, the Isneg language, is spoken by around 300,000 people. They also speak Ilocano.
Isneg
Also known as the “people from across the river” is quite related to the Ibanags.
Itawes
The type of marriage the community has is the arrange marriage, where the boy’s family offers a “dote” (dowry) to the girl’s family to be accepted.
Itawes
Inhabiting the Batanes, a chain of small islands at the northernmost point of the Philippines
Ivatan
The ancients spoke a language, Chirin nu Ibatan, or simply Ivatan; an Austronesian language spoken exclusively in the Batanes Islands was characterized by the dominant use of the letter “v”, as in valuga, vakul, and vanuwa. In addition, the dialect was unique to a specifc island: The Northern dialect spoken in Basco, the capitol; Itbayat in Itbayat Island; and Southern Sabtang in Sabtang Island.
Ivatan
People are a minority group in the Philippines. They live dispersed among several larger people groups. Instead of traditional thatched houses, many now live in modern dwellings that have two or more rooms.
Iwak
Unique to their culture is their stone houses adopted from the Spaniards and made of limestone; the walls were as thick as one-meter and able to withstand the terminal passage of typhoons in the Philippines.
Ivatan
Have a reputation for being “the strong people of the Cordilleras.”
Kalinga
The kinship system is said to extend up to the close relatives of both sides of the family (bilateral). They worship nature spirits and their ancestors, for whom they have a very high regard. Rituals are performed during important milestones of their life cycle, and for the agricultural cycles. Farming is done on man-made rice terraces.
Kakanaey
In the scenic mountainous Benguet dwells the people, a tribe that takes pride in their artistic dance performances—most notably iton-dak and tenebteb-ak music and the tay-chek dance—and showcases their continued fight to ascertain that their traditions will live through the modern world.
Karao
This group is concentrated about the municipality of Rizal, the general area formerly known as Malaueg before the twentieth century in the province of Cagayan, and west about Conner in Kalinga-Apayao.
Malueg
Otherwise known as Itneg or literally, Itineg, which means people living near the Tineg river
Tinggian
Traditionally, this people live in fortified villages adjacent to the swidden fields. They differ from other Philippine ethnic groups in that their dress is basically white, with the women known for the heavily beaded and full lower arm ornaments. The village is the political unit with a lakay as the head, assisted by a council of elders. The indigenous religion recognizes Kadaklan as the supreme deity, often identified also with Kabunyian, and other animistic deities.
Tinggian
One of the smallest minority groups in the province of Isabela. They are an indigenous community that speaks a distinct language that swims together with numerous other Filipino languages that have puzzled many other researchers.
Yogad
