LIST OF THE NATIVE TRIBES OF THE PHILIPPINES AND 

 OF THE LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY THEM/ 



By Prof. Fekdinanu Blumentkitt. 



[Transliited, with introduction and notes, by O. T. Mason.] 



INTRODUCTION. 



Ethnology relates to groups of human beings that are characterized 

 by names. Professor Blumentritt has done wisel}', therefore, in lay- 

 ing the foundation for Philippine ethnology, to collect in a scrupulous 

 manner such titles as are known to have belonged to groui)s of the 

 population. 



The names in Professor Blumentritt's list were conferred for various 

 reasons, among which the following are most important: 



1. Blood kinship or race, the biological concept, with the chissitic 

 terms species, subspecies, variety, race, breed, mixture. 



2. Speech, language, the linguistic concept, with the classilic terms 

 monosyllabic, incorporated, inflected, family, language, dialect. 



3. Tribal organization, the political concept, with the classific terms 

 nation, kingdom, republic, confederacy, tribe, phratry, gens. 



■1. Location, the geographic concept, with the classitic terms derived 

 from continents, oceans, river basins, islands, natural features. 



These classific concepts should be kept apart carefully in the student's 

 mind, although each one of them may be made helpful in perfecting 

 the comprehending of the others. 



1. The present population of the Philippines is one of the most inter- 

 esting of ethnologic combinations, since in its veins flows in larger or 

 smaller proportion the blood of all the t3'pes of mankind, to wit: 

 Negrito, Papuan, and African negro; Mongol and Malay; American 

 Indian; Hamite, Semite, and Aryan, if not an earlier Allopliyllian 

 white ingredient. In what degree this is true of any one and how far 

 it has influenced the naming of tribes, remains to be ascei'tained. The 

 two aboriginal races most in evidence in the islands are the Negrito 

 and the Malay. 



'Translated from Zeitsfhrift der (Tesellschaft fiir Erdkuiide zu Berlin. Px-rlin, 

 1890, Vol. XXV, pp. 127-146. With plates from Hilder Collection, P.ureaii (.1 

 American Ethnology. 



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