Philippines Filipino People & Ethnic Groups & Languages

• The modern Nation of The Philippines is a multicultural society. The predominant Filipino culture identity and civilization emerged as a by product of the interaction of the indigenous population with predominantly Chinese and Spanish immigrant peoples.
• When people call themselves ‘’ Filipino ’’ they mean they are in the political sense, subjects of the The Philippines nation. If explored further the word has a cultural and, for many, a linguistic sense.
• According to the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, there are 110 groups of indigenous peoples in the Philippines. We detail the various ethnic groups of the Philippines which includes the Indigenous Groups as well as the immigrant Groups and mixed racial groups.
  

• The ethnic groups of the Philippines can be divided into historical migration periods. These are the before 900 and the arrival of the Austronesians and the Negritos, the period prior to the Spanish and the migrations of the ''Malay '' and the Chinese, the Spanish Invasion of 1521 and subsequent colonizarion and finally the American colonization.
• Contemporary Philippines society has over 100 ethnic groups of which the dominant numbers are of The Tagalog of Luzon, The Cebuano of the Visayan Islands, The Hiligaynon of Panay and Negros also in Visayan Islands, The Ilocano of northwest Luzon, The Filipino Mestizos, The Bicol of Bicol and The Samaran of Samar and Leyte also of the Visayas.

The Major Ethnic Groups In the Philippines

The major ethnic groups in the Philippines are; The Tagalog, The Cebuano, The Ilocano, The Bicol, The Filipino Mestizos, The Hiligayon, The Samaran,