Negrito
Set of ethnic groups in Southeast Asia and Andaman islands / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the ethnic groups. For the shrub, see Citharexylum berlandieri. For the municipality, see El Negrito. For the bird genus, see Lessonia (bird).
Not to be confused with Pygmy peoples.
The term Negrito (/nɪˈɡriːtoʊ/; lit. 'little black people') refers to several diverse ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia and the Andaman Islands. Populations often described as Negrito include: the Andamanese peoples (including the Great Andamanese, the Onge, the Jarawa, and the Sentinelese) of the Andaman Islands, the Semang peoples (among them, the Batek people) of Peninsular Malaysia, the Maniq people of Southern Thailand, as well as the Aeta of Luzon, the Ati and Tumandok of Panay, the Mamanwa of Mindanao, and about 30 other officially recognized ethnic groups in the Philippines.
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Isolated geographic regions in India and Maritime Southeast Asia | |
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Andamanese languages, Aslian languages, Philippine Negrito languages | |
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Animism, folk religion, Anito, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism |
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