Muslim Filipinos and Their Homeland Flashcards
What comprises the Malay world?
Indonesia (with East Timor), Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and the Philippines
What is the estimated number of Muslim Filipinos in 1975?
2,188,000
What is the official 1970 Philippine Census of Muslim Filipinos
1,584,394
The Moros are found principally in Southern Philippines: in ________,__________, and _________
The island of Mindanao, Sulu Archipelago, and Palawan South of Puerto Princesa
Some 94 of the 2.2 million Moros are found in three groups, namely
- Maguindanao of Cotabato region
- Maranao-Ilanun of Lanao region
- Tausug and Samal of Sulu
What is the principal location of the Badjaos?
South Sulu
What is the principal location of the Ilanun (Iranun)?
Bukidnon and Parang
Maguindanao Province
Shores of Illana Bay in Lanao del Sur
What is the principal location of the Jama Mapun?
Cagayan de Sulu
What is the principal location of the Kalagan?
Davao Provinces
Shore of the Davao Gulf
What is the principal location of the Kolibugan (Kalibugan)?
Zamboanga del Sur
What is the principal location of the Maguindanao?
Cotabato Region
What is the principal location of the Maranao?
Lanao Region
What is the principal location of the Molbog?
Balabac Island
Southern Palawan
What is the principal location of the Palawani?
Southern Palawan
What is the principal location of the Samal (Sama’a)?
Sulu archipelago
What is the principal location of the Sangil?
Sarangani island group
What is the principal location of the Tausug?
Sulu archipelago, mainly Jolo island
What is the principal location of the Yakan?
Basilan Island
Anthropologists stress today that Filipinos are racially _________
one people
Tausug means ________
people of the current
All of the indigenous languages and dialects spoken by the Moros belong to what has been termed ____________
The Central Philippines Subgroup o the Malayo-Polynesian Linguistic Family
Moros are ________ except in the larger ethnically mixed settlements along the coast.
Monolinguistic
What is the lingua-franca of Sulu where the Samal and Badjao feel obliged to learn it?
Tausug
Tausug are found all over, ranging even to distant ______ and the ______ state of Sabah
Palawan and the East Malaysian state of Sabah
Known as the BOAT DWELLING Samal people — the smallest of the Moro groups in Sulu
Badjao
Badjao is the living _______, “they move with the wind and the tide in their small house-boats”
Sea Gypsies
They are the least intensively Islamized of all Muslim groups
Badjao
Badjao’s religious beliefs and customs are still largely _________
Animistic
It is a mistake to call them ______ for Islamization continues steadily and is bringing about social and value changes
Pagans
Maranao, Ilanun, and Maguindanao are found mostly in Mindanao and each group has a kinsmen in _______ and ________
Sulu and Sabah
They are so closely related ethnically and linguistically
Maranao and Ilanun
Maranaos are oriented in _______ while Ilanun are oriented in ________
Lakes
Shore (Illana Bay)/Sea
They have been found in the broad valley of Pulangi River
Maguindanao
Maranao, Ilanun, and Maguindanao make up ____ percent of the Muslim Filipinos
60 (60%)
The subsistence adaptation practiced by the Maguindanao and Maranao
Wet and Dry cultivation
The subsistence adaptation practiced by the Yakan
Slash and Burn (Kaingin)
The subsistence adaptation practiced by the Tausug and Samal such as fishing, trading, and smuggling
Sea-oriented livelihood
The most isolated and least touched by external forces of the major groups
Maranao
The most exposed to foreign influence by the virtue of Sulu’s location hard by the lanes of international shipping
Tausug
How many percent of the Tribal Filipinos are comprised in the area?
3%
What is the product of the history
Differentiation
The land of the Muslims
Moroland
How was the Moroland being described?
- Vast green crabs in tropic waters
- Stretching out an irritated claw
- School of minnows
What does it mean by the representation of the Moroland?
1. Vast green crabs in tropic waters
2. Stretching out an irritated claw
3. School of minnows
- Island of Mindanao
- Zamboanga Peninsula
- Sulu Archipelago
How many sq. miles is the territory covered by the Moroland?
36,540 sq. miles
Moroland is larger in territory than the _______
Portugal of Austria
Moroland outnumbers the population of independent countries, namely:
Albania, Costa Rica, and Libya
The Spaniards established a Christian presence by placing a strong _______ and __________ at the tip of Zamboanga Peninsula
Fort and Settlement
During the American Regime, many Christian Filipinos migrated to the Moroland especially in the __________ and ___________.
northern Lanao and Cotabato
In Muslim Filipino history, three regions of Moroland have loomed more important than others, namely
- Sulu archipelago
- Lake Lanao region
- Pulangi River Valley (Cotabato)