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Today we will delve into Palawan Tribe of the Philippines: specifically their History, Culture and Arts,
Customs and Traditions [Indigenous People | Ethnic Group]
There are three indigenous groups living in Palawan:
 One of this is the Palawan, or Pala’wan, which is with the same name of the main island palawan.
 Another is the Tagbanwa, who live in the central part and the northern Cuyo archipelago
 and the Batak, a nomadic Aeta community living in the forest farther north, between Puerto Princesa
and Roxas
In the southern part of palawan starting from the breach in the mountain range between Quezon and Abo-
Abo.

 They call themselves Palawan or Pala’wan, depending on the dialectal variations within the Palawan
language.
 The Islamized Palawan living in the islets and the seashore along the West Philippine Sea are called
Palawanun.
 Christian settlers call them Palawanos, a derivation borrowed from Spanish.

Palawan Island has diverse landscapes that rests on the Sunda Shelf, a bridge between Borneo and the
Calamianes. In 1991, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
declared Palawan “Reserve of the Biosphere.”

They have the unique flora and fauna of the southern part of the main island of Palawan.

 Some of these fauna are the masek (Malay civet), manturong (bear cat), and pilanduk (mouse deer).

There are two major Palawan groups according to location:

The Palawan-at-bukid are communities that live in the remote forests of the Mantaling and Gantong
mountain ranges.

The palawan also have three major Palawan languages:

The first is Brooke’s Point Palawan, which in 2000 was spoken by around 14,400 who reside along upland
rivers and the coast in the southeast of Palawan Island, from the south of Abo-Abo to Bataraza.

The second is Central Palawano, also known as Quezon Palawano, spoken by 12,000 people in 1981.) They
live along upland rivers and along the coast in the southwest part of Palawan Island, from north of Quezon
to north of Rizal, and east Abo-Abo.

The third is Southwest Palawano, spoken by around 12,000 in 2005, and these speakers reside along upland
rivers and some along the coast from north of Rizal to the southernmost tip of Palawan island, east side
from south Bataraza.

However, the Palawan languages include at least 12 dialects, such as the Palawan Penimusan or Islamized
Palawan, spoken by those who live along the coasts of the southwest part of Palawan Island and the Tau’t
Bato subgroup in Ransang, Rizal. As of July 2005, the Tau’t Bato population was 286 persons, comprising 66
households.

since the American colonial period have brought in migrants from all over the country, creating a
multilingual population that also speaks Ilocano, Cebuano, Ilonggo, Aklanon, and Masbateño.