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Yakan people
Students from the Datu Bantilan Dance Troupe in traditional Yakan costume with US Ambassador Kristie Kenney.
Sama-Bajau, other Moros, Lumad, Visayans, other Filipinos, other Austronesian peoples
The Yakan people are among the major indigenous Filipino ethnolinguistic groups in the Sulu Archipelago. Having a significant number of followers of Islam, it is considered one of the 13 Moro groups in the Philippines. The Yakans mainly reside in Basilan but are also in Zamboanga City. They speak a language known as Bissa Yakan, which has characteristics of both Sama-Bajau Sinama and Tausug (Jundam 1983: 7-8). It is written in the Malayan Arabic script, with adaptations to sounds not present in Arabic (Sherfan 1976).
The Yakan have a traditional horse culture. They are renowned for their weaving traditions.[2] Culturally, they are Sama people who eventually led a life on land, mostly in Basilan and Zamboanga city. They are included as part of the Sama ethnic group, which includes the Bajau, Dilaut, Kalibugan, and other Sama groups.[3]
^"Ethnicity in the Philippines (2020 Census of Population and Housing)". Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
^de Jong, Ronald. "The last Tribes of Mindanao, the Yakan; Mountain Dwellers". ThingsAsian. Global Directions, Inc. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
^Charles O. Frake (2006). Chapter 14. The Cultural Construction of Rank, Identity and Ethnic Origins in the Sulu Archipelago: compiled by James J. Fox and Clifford Sather (2006) in Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography. ANU Press.
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traditional weapon favored by the Yakanpeople of Basilan Island. It usually features a kakatua ("cockatoo") hilt, which among the Yakan is distinctively elongated...
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Maguindanao people; punyal (also known as puñal de kris or kris knife) among Visayans and the Yakanpeople; and badao among the Lumad people (which also...
self-defense. Pirah or Pira - a wide-tipped sword or knife favored by the Yakanpeople, it is also common in the Sulu Archipelago, Mindanao, and the Visayas...
Routledge. pp. 1200–1201. ISBN 978-1-135-19388-1. Yakan, Muḥammad Zuhdī (1999). Almanac of African peoples & nations. Transaction. p. 667. ISBN 978-1-56000-433-2...
Philippine island of Mindanao. The boats are made by Sama-Bajau, Tausug and Yakanpeoples living in the Sulu Archipelago, Zamboanga peninsula, and southern Mindanao...
a Filipino dessert steamed rice cake originating from the Tausug and Yakanpeople of Sulu. It is made from glutinous rice dough (though it can also be...
(which were then resolved) with the local Sulu people. They became the ancestors of the local Yakanpeople. During the Tang dynasty, Vietnam was called...
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small wooden sail to motorized boat used by Tausug, Sama-Bajau, and Yakanpeople of the Philippines. It is a fast cargo ship and is commonly used as a...
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Congo. They speak Mayogo, an Ubangian language. Yakan, Mohamad Z. (2017). Almanac of African Peoples and Nations. Taylor & Francis. pp. 495–. ISBN 978-1-351-28930-6...
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