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The document discusses several diverse ethnic groups known as the Negritos who inhabit isolated parts of Maritime Southeast Asia, including the Andaman Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Southern Thailand, and the Philippines. It describes how they were once considered a single population but recent research suggests they are separate groups. It also discusses how their pre-Neolithic populations were largely replaced beginning around 5,000 years ago by the expansion of Southern Mongoloid populations.

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The document discusses several diverse ethnic groups known as the Negritos who inhabit isolated parts of Maritime Southeast Asia, including the Andaman Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Southern Thailand, and the Philippines. It describes how they were once considered a single population but recent research suggests they are separate groups. It also discusses how their pre-Neolithic populations were largely replaced beginning around 5,000 years ago by the expansion of Southern Mongoloid populations.

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The Negrito (/nɪˈɡriːtoʊ/) are several diverse ethnic

groups who inhabit isolated parts of Maritime


Southeast Asia.[1] Their current populations include
the Andamanese peoples of the Andaman Islands,
the Semang and Batek peoples of Peninsular
Malaysia, the Maniq people of Southern Thailand,
and the Aeta people, Ati people, and 30 other official
recognized ethnic groups in the Philippines.
Based on their physical similarities, Negritos were
once considered a single population of related
people. Recent research, however, suggests that
they comprise separate groups, as well as
demonstrating that they are not closely related to the
Pygmies of Africa. The pre-Neolithic Negrito
populations of Southeast Asia were largely replaced
by the expansion of Southern Mongoloid
populations, beginning about 5,000 years ago.[2]
Historically they engaged in trade with the local
population that eventually invaded their lands and
were also often subjugated to slaves raids and
paying tributes to the local Southeast Asian rulers
and kingdoms. Some Negrito pygmies from the
southern forests were enslaved and exploited until
modern times since 724 AD.[3] While some have
lived in isolation others have became assimilated
with the general local population.
Princess Urduja is a legendary 14th-century warrior princess of the
dynastic Kingdom of Tawalisi in Pangasinan, a vast area by the shores of
the Lingayen Gulf and the China Sea. Though whether or not she actually
existed is in contention among scholars, she is still considered a popular
heroine and Philippine icon, especially in Pangasinan. The ruler of
Tawalisi, according to firsthand accounts by Muslim scholar Ibn Battuta
from Morocco, possessed many ships and was a rival of China, which was
then ruled by the Mongol dynasty. Urduja is often described as tall and
beautiful with golden bronze skin and dark hair, clad in gold, and was
famous for leading an army of strong women warriors adept in sword
fighting and horseback riding called Kinalakihan or Amazons. She is also
believed to be multi-dialect which is a common characteristic of nobles in
pre-colonial Philippines.The name Urduja appears to be Sanskrit in
origin, and a variation of the name “Udaya”, meaning “arise” or “rising
sun”, or the name “Urja”, meaning “breath”.

The only firsthand account of Princess Urduja is found in the travelogues


of the Islamic writer Ibn Battuta. In his diaries, Battuta narrated his
journey as he passed by the province of Pangasinan on his way to Canton,
China, in the year 1347. He was appointed as an honorary citizen of a
kingdom named Tawalisi which was ruled by a king with a daughter
named Urduja. Urduja had proven herself in battle where her brother had
fallen short, and so was granted charge over much of the kingdom. Battuta
described Urduja as a warrior princess who personally fought in battles
and duels and led a retinue of skilled female warriors riding on
horseback. The Philippines' national hero Dr. Jose Rizal, in Dr. Austin
Craig's 1916 paper "Particulars of the Philippines' Pre-Spanish Past" was
quoted as saying in one of his letters: "While I may have doubts regarding
the accuracy of Ibn Batuta's details, I still believe in the voyage to
Tawalisi". Rizal based his speculations on his own calculation of the time
and distance of travel Battuta took to sail from China to Tawalisi.
Dawn Man ( or “cavemen” because they lived
in caves). The Dawnmen resembled Java Man,
Peking Man, and other Asian Home sapiens
who existed about 250,000 years ago. They did
not have any knowledge of agriculture, and
lived by hunting and fishing. It was precisely in
search of food that they came to the
Philippines by way of the land bridges that
connected the Philippines and Indonesia.
The Malays were once probably a people of coastal
Borneo who expanded into Sumatra and the Malay
Peninsula as a result if their trading and seafaring way of
life. That this expansion occurred only in last 1,500 years
or so is indicated by the fact that the languages of the
Malay group are still very much divergent from the
language of other peoples of Sumatra, Borneo, and other
neighbouring lands.
Indonesian are citizens or people of Indonesia,
regardless of their race, ethnicity or religious
background. There are about 300 ethnicities in
Indonesia, a multicultural archipelagic country with a
diversity of languages, culture and religious beliefs.
Indonesian in the Philippines consist of expatriates and
immigrant from Indonesia residing in the Philippines, and
their descendants. Indonesian in the Philippines, making
them 5th largest group of foreigners in the Philippines.

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