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  2. Filipinos of Malay descent - Wikipedia

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    Filipinos consider Malays as being the natives of the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Consequently, Filipinos consider themselves Malay when in reality, they are referring to the Malay race. [14] Some Filipinos in Singapore would like to be categorised as Malay, contra Singaporean policy.

  3. Malay language in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Malay is related to the native languages of the Philippines, both being Austronesian languages. Many words in the Tagalog and various Visayan languages are derived from Old Malay. Although the history of Malay influence in Philippine history is a subject of conversation, no attempts have been made to ever promote Malay or even Spanish.

  4. Malaysia–Philippines relations - Wikipedia

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    MalaysiaPhilippines relations ( Malay: Hubungan Filipina–Malaysia; Filipino: Ugnayang Malayo-Pilipino) refers to the bilateral relations between Malaysia and the Philippines. The Philippines has an embassy in Kuala Lumpur, and Malaysia has an embassy in Manila and a consulate general in Davao City. The people of the two neighbouring ...

  5. Malays (ethnic group) - Wikipedia

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    a Highly naturalized population of mixed origins, but using the 'Malay' identity. The Malay tricolour embodies the philosophy of Kemelayuan. Malays ( / məˈleɪ / mə-LAY; Malay: Orang Melayu, Jawi: أورڠ ملايو ‎) are an Austronesian ethnoreligious group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as ...

  6. Malayisation - Wikipedia

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    Besides the use of Malay when Filipinos first interacted with Spaniards and other Europeans, other Malayan cultural influence is also evidenced by the use of the Malay language in titles and other diplomatic and religious terms in Philippine kingdoms, as was the case for much of the rest of Malayan Southeast Asia.

  7. Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Traditional homelands of the Indigenous peoples of the Philippines Overview of the spread & overlap of languages spoken throughout the country as of March 2017. There are several opposing theories regarding the origins of ancient Filipinos, starting with the "Waves of Migration" hypothesis of H. Otley Beyer in 1948, which claimed that Filipinos were "Indonesians" and "Malays" who migrated to ...

  8. History of the Philippines (900–1565) - Wikipedia

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    The text of the LCI was mostly written in Old Malay with influences of Sanskrit, Old Javanese and Old Tagalog using the Kawi script. Dutch anthropologist Antoon Postma deciphered the text. The date of the inscription is in the "Year of Saka 822, month of Vaisakha ", corresponding to April–May in 900 AD.

  9. Top Philippine security official demands Chinese diplomats ...

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    A top Philippine security official demanded Friday the immediate expulsion of Chinese diplomats allegedly behind a reported leak of a phone conversation between one of the diplomats and a Filipino ...