page_title: Igorot society
section_title: Etymology
hierarchical_section_title: Igorot society / Etymology
caption_attribution_description: English: Banaue, Philippines: Man of the Ifugao tribe in traditional costume Français&#160;: Un homme de la tribu Igorot en costume traditionnel, à Banaue (Philippines).
context_page_description: The Igorot Society is the term for the collection of several ethnic groups in the Philippines that come from the Cordillera Administrative Region of Luzon. They inhabit the six provinces of Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Kalinga, Ifugao, and Mountain Province, as well as Baguio. They are a pre-Hispanic highland society that has survived through Spanish colonization. This state is the oldest in the Philippines and its culture is one of the oldest Austronesian cultures and social structures outside of Taiwan. This society predates the other pre-Hispanic states in the Philippines which are maritime civilizations, in contrast to this society which is a mountainous high-land society. This society is composed of many tribes, mainly the Bontoc, Ibaloi, Isnag, Kalinga, and the Kankanaey.
context_section_description: The word "Igorot" is an exonym, derived from the Austronesian term for "mountain people" (formed from the prefix i-, "dweller of" and golot, "mountain range"). During the Spanish colonial era, the term was variously recorded as Igolot, Ygolot, and Igorrote, compliant to Spanish orthography.
  The endonyms Ifugao or Ipugao (also meaning "mountain people") are used more frequently within the Igorots themselves, as igorot is viewed by some as slightly pejorative.
caption: Man of the Ifugao tribe in traditional clothing.
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