The Filipino people are the nationals of the Republic of the Philippines and to persons having Filipino ancestry. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines and about 11 million outside the Philippines. Many Filipinos refer to themselves colloquially as "Pinoy" (feminine: "Pinay"), which is a slang word formed by taking the last four letters of "Pilipino", and adding the diminutive suffix "-y". The pre-1987 Philippine alphabet (Abaka...
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The Filipino people are the nationals of the Republic of the Philippines and to persons having Filipino ancestry. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines and about 11 million outside the Philippines. Many Filipinos refer to themselves colloquially as "Pinoy" (feminine: "Pinay"), which is a slang word formed by taking the last four letters of "Pilipino", and adding the diminutive suffix "-y". The pre-1987 Philippine alphabet (Abakada)'s lack of the letter F had caused the letter F to be substituted with P. This is the reason, when the 28-letter modern Filipino alphabet has finally been made official in 1987, the name Filipino was preferred over Pilipino.
The earliest human remains found in the Philippines are the fossilized fragments of a skull and jawbone, discovered in the 1960s by Dr. Robert B. Fox, an American anthropologist of the National Museum. Anthropologists who have examined these human remains agreed that it belonged to modern human beings. These include the...
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