This is a photo page of people of the Philippines.

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The Filipino people seem to always have a smile on their faces and love to have their photos taken. The Philippines is the only Asian country that has English as a second language and most Filipinos speak some English.  Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 94 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines (including Guam and Hawaii).

There are around 180 languages spoken in the Philippines, most of them belonging to the Austronesian language family, with Tagalog and Cebuano having the greatest number of native speakers. The official languages of the Philippines are Filipino and English and most Filipinos are bilingual or trilingual.

Most 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 lack of the letter “F” in the pre-1987 Philippine alphabet, Abakada, had caused the letter “F” to be substituted with “P”. This is why, when the 28-letter modern Filipino alphabet was made official in 1987, the name Filipino was preferred over Pilipino. The name Filipino was chosen by the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos, who named the islands “las Islas Filipinas” (“the Philippine Islands”) after Philip II of Spain.

In colloquial speech, English language words borrowed from the Filipino language are inflected for gender. It is quite unnatural, for example, for women to call themselves Filipino in daily conversation and they will generally refer to themselves instead as Filipina. Also, adjectives that have to do with women (e.g. “Filipina beauty”) are modified to use the feminine form. In legal documents such as bank accounts and passports, however, both genders are referred to as Filipino. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_people

A young Filipina Dancer in a festival

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About my photography, you may freely share or use my photos on your own websites just try to leave a link back to this website or give me credit for the photos and that goes for any photos on this website as long as they are my own. I do not know where the above photo came from so if you know, post a comment so I can give the photographer credit for excellent work. Click on any photo to see a larger version. (Click image to enlarge)

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