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  Kankanay
The Kankanay have their own language called Mangkayan which is related to the languages of the Ifugao and the Bontoc, two groups with which the Kankanay share geographical borders.
What the Kankanay do have are the sudsud, short tales which are recounted in gatherings of adults, or when they are working in the fields during harvest time, doing work at home or around the house yard, or even when just relaxing in their leisure time.
Aside from the day-eng which contain Kankanay fables and legends, there are day-eng sung at any time, which consist of dialogues between men and women, as well as day-eng cradle songs sung by Kankanay mothers as they put their babies to sleep.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kankanai
Kankanai, or Kankanaey, is a dialect widely used by Cordillerans particularly people from the Mountain Province and several from the Benguet province.
The Kankanay have their own language called Mangkayan which is related to the languages of the Ifugao and the Bontoc, two groups with which the Kankanay share geographical borders.
What the Kankanay do have are the sudsud, short tales which are recounted in gatherings of adults, or when they are working in the fields during harvest time, doing work at home or around the house yard, or even when just relaxing in their leisure time.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kankanai   (324 words)

  
 Kankanai
The northern Kankanay are similar in culture and social organization to the Bontok peoples to the north and northeast of them on the Chico River system.
Kankanay, Northern Kankanai, Lepanto Igorot, Katangnan, Sagada Igorot, Kataugnan, Kankana-ey
Luzon: Western flank of Cordillera in Benguet, Illocos Sur, and Bontoc provinces.
class.csueastbay.edu /anthropologymuseum/virtmus/Philippines/Peoples/Kankanai.htm   (296 words)

  
 ALTACO, Antique Luzon Tribal Art Collectors' Organisation, Philippines
Specifically he mentions that "Notes on the Northern Kankanai" and "Ifugao Myths, Folktales and Legends" were lost to the enemy.
Barton lived long enough to learn the good news that his revised manuscript on the Kankanai was not lost, as he had supposed, but had been saved through the efforts of Professor H. Otley Beyer.
Apparently the Kankanai manuscript was separated from the Beyer collection some time after September 1947 without being replaced with a copy.
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 About Culture and Arts
The population is estimated at some 59,987 (NSO 1990) in the area about Lepanto and Tiagan to the headwater streams of the Chico and Abra rivers where they practice wet terracing.
This type of cultivation, however, was preceded by dry cultivation of tubers, a practice widespread among the peoples of the Cordilleras.
The northern Kankanay are more related in terms of culture to the Bontoc peoples to the north and northeast on the Chico River system.
www.ncca.gov.ph /about_cultarts/ebook_subcont.php?subcont_Id=27   (295 words)

  
 The Province of Benguet
Benguet is the homeland of three tribes, collectively referred to as Igorots.
The Ibaloi live in the southeast, the Kankanai in the northwest and the Kalanguaya in the east.
Kankanais speak Kalkali, which is realted to the Bontoc dialect.
mypage.uniserve.ca /~swens/benguet.htm   (260 words)

  
 "Ifugao Hudhud: Local Global Dimension of the Sacred, by Dr.Jesus T. Peralta"
These people are the Kankanai, again quite a complex people with a convergent kind of religion, traditionally with a religious hierarchy similar to that of a church.
In the fringes of this society, however, the reach of the religious structure is rather rarefied.
Almost every adult male is a mumbaki, which came as a result of the divergence of practices when the migrating populations lost contact with the central religion in Benguet among the Kankanai.
www.livinginthephilippines.com /philculture/culture&arts/ifugao_hudhud.html   (2735 words)

  
 GlobalPinoy, Travel - Quirino
The province has the potential to become the white water rafting capital of the Philippines.
Ilongots, Ifugaos, Kankanai and Inibaloi were reported to have settled on the highlands of the province.
Majority speak Ilokano but others use Ifugaos, Tagalog Ilongot, Pangasinense, Kankanai and twenty three other dialects which are common in the region or in the country.
www.globalpinoy.com /travel/province/quirino.php   (245 words)

  
 Philippine Arts: Indigenous Music
There is also the popular nose flute, which produces soft and soothing sounds heard clearly in quiet late afternoons.
The northern tribes call this kalleleng (Bondotc and Kankanai), tongali (Ifugao and Kalinga) and baliing (Isneg).
In the Central Philippines, it is known as lantuy among the Cuyunin, babarek among the Tagbanua and plawta among the Mangyan.
filipinoheritage.com /arts/phil-music/pre-colonial-indigenous-music.htm   (880 words)

  
 ALTACO, Antique Luzon Tribal Art Collectors' Organisation, Philippines
Specifically he mentions that "Notes on the Northern Kankanai" and "Ifugao Myths, Folktales and Legends" were lost to the enemy.
Barton lived long enough to learn the good news that his revised manuscript on the Kankanai was not lost, as he had supposed, but had been saved through the efforts of Professor H. Otley Beyer.
Apparently the Kankanai manuscript was separated from the Beyer collection some time after September 1947 without being replaced with a copy.
home.chello.no /~andy.anderson/research.html   (818 words)

  
 Filipinas Heritage Library - Essays
This could be the text for the subsistence culture which is swidden cultivation and is not confined to the shifting cultivators.
Even such settled agriculturists as the Kalinga, Tinggian, Kankanai, Bontoc and Ifugao of Northern Luzon, or the Maranao and Taosug of Mindanao, also practice shifting cultivation, though they have permanent ricefields.
The eaves hang low, all around the house, and in these eaves are tucked tools and implements and the skulls of pigs butchered for ritual feasts.
www.filipinaslibrary.org.ph /filipiniana/viewessay.asp?aid=32&art_id=32&pg=2   (1498 words)

  
 The Centennial Literary Prize-winning novels in English
Kankanai tribesmen on display stare right back at the Expo visitors, and what moral injustice may have been done to members of the Philippine exhibit is matched over time—one of the major characters is a Filipino graduate student cum historian who mentally annotates American commentary on the exhibit with de rigueur postmodern irony.
History scholar Meynard Aguinaldo is a grand nephew of General Emilio Aguinaldo, whose revolution is dissected by Cornelius James and rest of the American team sent to visit the
The Kankanai chieftain Lakay Tomlo (baptized Antonio) foresees his daughter's marriage to the
www.palhbooks.com /groyon.htm   (3431 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Kankanai
Kankanaey: also called Central Kankanaey, Kankanai, Kan- kanay.
advocacy in relation to his Kankanai people in Busol (Benguet) as...
Kalingas (Lawless 1975), and the Kankanais of Sagada (Voss 1983).
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 Why the Cordillera
People who have the pride that no lowlander has the right to claim, the pride of being free while the rest of the Philippines was under the colonial rule of the Spanish.
Ibaloi, Kankanai, Kalanguya, Iwac, Ifugao, Bontoc, Kalinga, Tinguian among these groups we find the people who have kept these mountains safe for centuries, Our homes are seemingly under siege, “development” has claimed the homes of many communities.
The Cordillera being home to the bounties of the earth have provided life for generations, yet today people seek to destroy that which has given us life.
www.kristusway.org /cordilleratrust/cordilleratrust.org_files/Page350.htm   (269 words)

  
 Benguet, Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Ibaloi live in the southeast, the Kankanai in the northwest, and the Kalanguya in the east.
They live in single-room houses raised on posts and topped by a pyramidal thatched roof.
Ibalois speak Nabaloy, which is similar to Pangasinense; Kankanais speak Kalkai, which is related to the Bontoc dialect.
home.comcast.net /~maesteban/island_groups/luzon/car/benguet/benguetprofile.htm   (1268 words)

  
 WOW Philippines :: Explore Philippines :: Description   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The major dialect is Ilocano, spoken by 71.46 percent of the total populace.
Other dialects are Ifugao, Bugkalot, Pangasinense, and Kankanai.
The province has a mean annual temperature of 26.6 degree Celsius.
www.tourism.gov.ph /explore_phil/place_details.asp?content=description&province=8   (325 words)

  
 Welcome to Pesocard.Com - Always There For You!   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Four ethnic groups were reported to have settled in the highlands of the province.
Their main sources of livelihood are farming, hunting, fishing and gold panning.
Other major dialects used are Ifugaos, Tagalog, Ilongot, Pangasinense, Kankanai and twenty three other dialects which are common in the region or in the country.
www.pesocard.com /provinces/region2/quirino/people.html   (174 words)

  
 igorot | be proud of being one   (Site not responding. Last check: )
And like the word Moro, it has become a source of pride to its members - designating an identity distinct from Filipino.
Among the 800,000 Igorots, there are seven major peoples: Apayao, Tinggian, Kalinga, Bontoc, Ifugao, Kankanai, and Ibaloi.
The ancestors of today's Igorots originally were low-landers who immigrated to the mountains of central Luzon centuries ago in two distinct waves.
www.freewebs.com /shaley/theigorotofluzon.htm   (880 words)

  
 Global Nation | INQ7.net
(The proficiency in English of Sagada's people, the Kankanai, owes much to the fact that the town was a Protestant settlement for many years.)
In what we would later recognize as typical Kankanai bluntness, Perin comments: "Ang tagal nyo, a (You certainly took your time)."
During the half-hour hike, Perin stops at a certain spot by the trail and points to what looks like a boarded-up cavity on the side of the mountain.
www.inquirer.net /globalnation/sec_phe/2003/may/07-01.htm   (1890 words)

  
 The Laughing Nomad > Print > Zhondian to Baishuitai
Jana described what she knew about the war in the Philippines…the country where she spent two years in the peace corps after college.
The topography of the countryside in and near Baishuitai where the local Naxi cultural people live reminded her of the sub cultural group-the Kankanai-in the mountains where she taught English.
When we got off the bus in Sanba, at the foot of the Baishuitai Plateau, a Chinese tourist from Taiwan that had been sitting on the bus in front of Jana paid Y10 or $1 of our entrance fee into the limestone terraces because the clerk had no change.
blogs.bootsnall.com /nomads/wp-print.php?p=192   (1296 words)

  
 About Benguet Province, Philippines
The Ibaloi in the southeast, the Kankanai in the northwest and the Kalanguaya in the east.
All three tribes live in single-room houses raised on posts and topped by a pyramidal-thatched roof.
Kankanais speak Kalkali, which is related to the Bontoc dialect.
www.islandsproperties.com /places/benguet.htm   (487 words)

  
 Review of recent developments in the Cordillera provinces: Northern Luzon
In the months of June, July and up to the present, large-scale operations by the Armed Forces of the Philippines have been taking place in the homelands of the Igorot people in northern Luzon.
the boundary areas of the three provinces Abra, Mountain Province and Kalinga-Apayao, which are deep in the traditional heartlands of the Tingguian, Kankanai, Bontoc and Kalinga people.
Since the operations started in June, the area has been saturated with 3,000 troops composed of the 41st and 48th Philippine Army Infantry battalions and reinforced by a composite group of Marines, Scout Rangers and Constabulary soldiers.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/54a/224.html   (1306 words)

  
 Linguist List - Show languages in Subgroup
2 languages in the Kankanay subgroup of Austronesian
Bakun-Kibungan ; Central Kankanaey ; Guinzadan ; Kankanaey ; Kankanai ; Kankanay ; Kapangan ; Mankayan-Buguias
Kankanay, Northern ; Sagada Igorot ; Western Bontoc
linguistlist.org /forms/langs/get-familyid.cfm?CFTREEITEMKEY=ANBCDBEACBB   (73 words)

  
 The Official Website of the Provincial Government of Nueva Vizcaya
Furthermore, Tagalog and Ifugao are also spoken with a share of 7.92% and 5.77% respectively.
Other dialects spoken include Ibaloi, Gaddang and Kankanai.
Language/dialects generally spoken in the households of Nueva Vizcaya
www.nvizcaya.gov.ph /language.html   (71 words)

  
 Define kankanai - Definition of kankanai from Free-Online-Dictionary.org   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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Lo sagrado en un mundo interconectado Este grupo, llamado kankanai, forma también un pueblo muy complejo, con una religión de tipo...
www.free-online-dictionary.org /define-kankanai.html   (305 words)

  
 Asiatour.com / Philippines / people / Other Cultural Minorities / Kankanai
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Dialect Kankanai, although Ilocano is the lingua franca of the tribe; some speak Nabaloi
Traditional Form of Settlement: Several families are grouped in a single dwelling with separate kitchens and yards for each family.
www.asiatour.com /philippines/e-01land/ep-lan12_d3.htm   (1413 words)

  
 CHAPTER I
The rural Filipino may consider the river and a stone as alive.
The Kankanai concept of ab-abiik attests to this conviction.
Likewise a spirit can be described as having physical traits.
www.crvp.org /book/Series03/III-8/chapter_i.htm   (5923 words)

  
 Community Extension Services
K akayahan L inanginpara sa I kauunlad ng K abuhayan - Intensified livelihood / Entrepreneurial program for parents of GRACE Project clients as well as parents, guardians, yayas of grade school learners
Community organizing and development activities for Indigenous people in Sitio Bacao, Dona Josefa, Palayan City (Aetas from Zambales who were relocated due to Pinatubo eruption) and at Camp Martyr, Labi, Bongabon, Nueva Ecija (Altas and Kankanai)
G uidance and R ehabilitation A ssistance for C hildren through E ducation - An outreach program of the College of the Immaculate Conception focused on children with disabilities particularly the hearing impaired,the indigent and disadvantaged persons in the Diocese of Cabanatuan and Nueva Ecija.
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 Goldsmith: Worshipping at the altar of economic pragmatism.
In this case, it must be noted, the funding was not suspended for environmental reasons, but because the project, if it had gone ahead, would have given rise to a veritable civil war.
Indeed, the Kalinga, Bontoc and Kankanai people who inhabit the area that was to be flooded, simply refused to give up their ancestral lands and sabotaged efforts to build the dam.
This led to a very brutal response on the part of the Government.
www.edwardgoldsmith.com /page99.html   (2039 words)

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