This article is about Kankanaey people. For the Kankanaey language, see Kankanaey.
Kankanaey
A Kankanaey chief from the town of Suyoc, in Mankayan, Benguet (taken c. 1904).
Total population
466,970[1] (2020 census)
Regions with significant populations
Philippines (Cordillera Administrative Region)
Languages
Kankanaey, Ilocano, Tagalog
Religion
Christianity, Indigenous folk religion
Related ethnic groups
Igorot peoples
The Kankanaey people are an Indigenous peoples of the Northern Philippines. They are part of the collective group of indigenous people known as the Igorot people.
^"Ethnicity in the Philippines (2020 Census of Population and Housing)". Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
The Kankanaeypeople are an Indigenous peoples of the Northern Philippines. They are part of the collective group of indigenous people known as the Igorot...
in the Philippines primarily by the Kankanaeypeople. Alternate names for the language include Central Kankanaey, Kankanai, and Kankanay. It is widely...
retrieved September 11, 2023 "The KankanaeyPeople of the Philippines: History, Culture, Customs and Tradition [Indigenous People | Cordillera Ethnic Tribes]"...
Look up Kankanaey or Kankanay in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kankanaey, or Kankanay, may be: Kankanaeypeople, an indigenous people of the Philippines...
Prefecture (Ku people, descendants of the Bo of Sichuan) Hanging coffins are one of the funerary practices among the Kankanaeypeople of Sagada, Mountain...
elders of the Bontoc and Kalinga people retain tattoos up to today; but they are believed to be extinct among the Kankanaey, Apayao, Ibaloi, and other Cordilleran...
modern Polynesians have a common ancestry with the Atayal and the Kankanaeypeople of the northern Philippines. The Atayal are visibly different from...
to the Late Neolithic Period. The more common burial custom of the Kankanaeypeople in Sagada, Mountain Province is for coffins to be tucked into crevices...
show that the Lapita people and modern Polynesians have a common ancestry with the Atayal people of Taiwan and the Kankanaeypeople of the northern Philippines...
dinuguan, a native blood sausage known as pinuneg also exists among the Kankanaeypeople of the highlands of Luzon. Cubes of pork blood grilled on skewers is...
Sex: 2010 (Iligan City) "The KankanaeyPeople of the Philippines: History, Culture, Customs and Tradition [Indigenous People | Cordillera Ethnic Tribes]"...
on it. The sky is opaque and solid and its rim is three meters thick. Kankanaey – The middleworld is carried by four huge posts that stand on the lowerworld...
Another sacred, ritual pasiking of the Highland Philippine Bontoc and Kankanaeypeoples is called the takba. Representing an ancestor figure, the takba is...
Kalinga, Tinguian, Kankanaey and Ibaloi were all farmers who constructed the rice terraces for many centuries. Other mountain peoples of Luzon such as the...
love and beauty goddess. Bangan: the Kankanaey goddess of romance; a daughter of Bugan and Lumawig Obban: the Kankanaey goddess of reproduction; a daughter...
Talasiu are genetically closest to the Ami and Atayal people from Taiwan, and the Kankanaeypeople from the northern Philippines, while sharing little similarity...
distinction between those who speak Hard Kankanaey (Applai) and Soft Kankanaey. Speakers of Hard Kankanaey are from the towns of Sagada and Besao in...
from the western Mountain Province, due to striking similarities with Kankanaey language, architecture, clothing manufacturing and design and the many...
Carling is the daughter of a half-Japanese, half-Kankanaey father and a Kankanaey mother. The Kankanaeypeople belonging to the Igorot group are based in the...
include the kadangyan of the Ifugao, Bontoc, and Kankanaeypeoples, as well as the baknang of the Ibaloi people. In others, though wealth may give one prestige...
native speakers of Ibanag, Ivatan, Ibaloi, Itneg, Itawes, Pangasinan, Kankanaey, Kalinga, and other languages in Northern Luzon, and by many native speakers...
The indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, are Melanesians. There is genetic evidence for...
Tagalog, are the Visayans, particularly the Cebuano and Ilonggo; and the Kankanaey from northern Luzon. Bicolanos are also found as a minority in Mindanao...
[bɛŋˈɡɛt]), officially the Province of Benguet (Ibaloi: Probinsya ne Benguet; Kankanaey: Probinsyan di Benguet; Pangasinan: Luyag/Probinsia na Benguet; Ilocano:...
The Andamanese are the various indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands, part of India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the union territory in the southeastern...
also known as Kankanaey. According to legend, Sagada was founded as an ili or village by Biag, a man from Bika in eastern Abra. The people from Bika were...
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