Filipinos
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 98.5 million (the number does not include ethnic Chinese & other foreign groups residing in the Philippines, nor does it include Overseas Filipinos) |
|
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Philippines 98.5 million |
|
 United States
|
3,416,840 |
 Saudi Arabia
|
1,020,000 |
 United Arab Emirates
|
700,000 |
 Canada
|
662,600 |
 Malaysia
|
245,000 |
 Japan
|
209,373 |
 Qatar
|
195,558 |
 Australia
|
171,233 |
 Kuwait
|
139,802 |
 Hong Kong
|
130,810 |
 Italy
|
165,060 |
 Spain
|
115,362 |
 United Kingdom
|
112,000 |
 Taiwan
|
108,520 |
 South Korea
|
63,464 |
 New Zealand
|
40,347 |
 Lebanon
|
35,000 |
 Israel
|
31,000 |
 Papua New Guinea
|
25,000 |
 Germany
|
20,589 |
 Netherlands
|
16,719 |
 Macau
|
14,544 |
 Sweden
|
13,000 |
 Ireland
|
12,791 |
 Austria
|
12,474 |
 Norway
|
12,262 |
 China
|
12,254 |
 Switzerland
|
10,000' |
 Kazakhstan
|
7,000 |
 Palau
|
7,000 |
 Greece
|
6,500 |
 Turkey
|
5,500 |
 Mexico
|
1,202 |
| Languages | |
| Languages of the Philippines, includes: | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholicism. Minority others are: |
|
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Austronesian peoples | |
Filipinos (Filipino: Mga Pilipino) are the people who are native to, or identified with the country of the Philippines. The people of the Philippines come from various ethnolinguistic groups, with the vast majority of Filipinos being of Austronesian stock.
The modern Filipino identity, with its Austronesian roots, was developed in conjunction with Spanish, Chinese and American influences.
The Philippines was a Spanish colony for 333 years, setting a foundation for contemporary Filipino culture. Under Spanish rule, most of the Filipino populace embraced Roman Catholicism, yet revolted many times against its hierarchy. Almost all Filipinos adopted Spanish surnames from the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos published in 1849 by the Spanish colonial government. As neither past governments nor the modern Philippine Statistics Authority account for the racial background of an individual, the exact percentage of Filipino people of Spanish ancestry is unknown.
The name Filipino was derived from the term "las Islas Filipinas" ("the Philippine Islands"), the name given to the archipelago in 1543 by the Spanish explorer and Dominican priest Ruy López de Villalobos, in honour of Philip II of Spain (Spanish: Felipe II). The lack of the letter "F" in the pre-1987 Philippine alphabet, Abakada, had caused the letter "F" to be substituted with "P". Upon official adoption of the modern, 28-letter Filipino alphabet in 1987, the name Filipino was preferred over Pilipino.
Use of the term "Filipino" in the Philippines started during the Spanish colonial period. The original meaning was "a person of Spanish descent born in the Philippines" (a person of Austronesian ancestry and not of Spanish descent was called an "Indio"). This original usage is now archaic and obsolete. Historian Ambeth Ocampo has suggested that the first documented use of the word to refer to Indios was the Spanish language poem A la juventud filipina, published in 1879 by José Rizal.
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