EARLY FILIPINO ANCESTORS

WAVES OF MIGRATION THEY BELIEVE THAT THE EARLY FILIPINOS CAME FROM
“WAVES OF MIGRATION”-NEGRITOS, INDONESIANS, AND MALAYS-WHO PEOPLED
THESE ISLAND THOUSAND YEARS AGO. 6. A. THE NEGRITOS – THE FIRST FILIPINO
CAME TO THE PHILIPPINES. – THEY WHERE ALSO CALLED ATIS OR AETAS.

NEGRITO (AETES) IN THE PHILIPPINES, THE PHILIPPINES WERE PROBABLY FIRST

OCCUPIED BY PEOPLE WHO ARRIVED IN SMALL MIGRATIONS FROM MAINLAND
SOUTHEAST ASIA. THE FIRST OF THESE WERE BELIEVE TO BE NEGRITOS. IN EARLIER
TIMES THEY LIVED WIDESPREAD THROUGHOUT THE PHILIPPINES.

RENOWNED FILIPINO ANTHROPOLOGIST FELIPE LANDA JOCANO DISPUTES

BEYER’S BELIEF THAT FILIPINO DESCENDED FROM NEGRITEOS AND MALAYS WHO
MIGRATED TO THE PHILIPPINES THOUSAND OF YEARS AGO. ACCORDING TO JOCANO,
IT IS DIFFICULT TO PROVE THAT NEGRITEOS WERE THE FIRST INHABITANTS OF THIS
COUNTRY.

THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WIYH A HUNTER GATHERER BACKGROUND OF THE

PHILIPPINES, AMONG WHICH THE AGTA, AETA, ATI, AND BATAC, ARE COLLECTIVELY
REFFERED TO AS NEGRITOS. THEY REPRESENT THE MOST ANCIENT CIVILIZATION IN
THE COUNTRY, GOING BACK MORE THAN 40,000 YEARS IN TIME.

IN SUMMARY, THE MOST POPULAR LANGUAGES IN THE PHILIPPINES ARE 1) ENGLISH

2) FILIPINO/TAGALOG 3) CEBUANO (VISIYAN). MOST FILIPINOS SPEAK BOTH FILIPINO
AND TAGALOG, CEBUANO IF THEY’RE FROM A PLACE SOUTH OF LUZON.

THE EARLY