Local
Global
100

Endangered languages of the Philippines
[Map courtesy of Professors Tuting Hernandez and Michael Manahan of the UP Department of Linguistics.]

Focus on the red dots. https://iyil.ph/articles/map-endangered-languages-philippines/

Culture Loss

100

Diffusion

200

WWII: Igorot Scouts wearing their wanes (G-strings) with their American uniform (1942)

Acculturation

200

Martin Luther and the first Protestant religion, Lutheranism. 

Innovation

300

Dreamweavers are called so because they dream about the patterns they use on the T'nalak. Lang Dulay, the last of the dreamweavers, passed away last 2015. Only T'boli women in their 30s are said to be interested in weaving. The young ones are mostly preoccupied with their studies or getting careers.
https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/212579/what-will-happen-to-the-dreamweavers-now-that-lang-dulay-is-gone/#ixzz6cEt7Ol22

Culture loss

300
"Between 1492 and 1600, 90% of the indigenous populations in the Americas had died. That means about 55 million people perished because of wars, massacres (and never-before-seen pathogens like smallpox, measles, and influenza)."

From www.businessinsider.com


Genocide

400

Acculturation

500

In the 21st century, there have been group and national efforts to revive the ancient scripts of the Philippines (e.g. Baybayin).  

Directed change

500

The late 19th c. American slogan, "kill the Indian to save the man". This means erasing the Indian-ness from Indian people, and turning them into "regular Americans".

Ethnocide

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