ancestry, or in many cases in Latin America, mostly Spanish and some Amerindian. However, those with Asian blood were not regarded as Criollo in the Philippines. Criollos were more commonly called filipinos ("from the Philippines") or insulares ("from the islands") according to the original meaning of the word. The criollo class was below that of the peninsulares born in spain, but out-ranked the people of mixed Austronesian-Spanish descent, and the Christianized native Austronesian peoples. 9 The meaning of filipino changed drastically during the Philippine Revolution for Independence against Spain in 1896. It was adopted by nationalist movements and transformed into a national designation that encompassed the entire population of the Philippines, especially the descendants of the native Austronesian peoples. In fact, the meaning of Filipino today is the opposite of its colonial meaning, since it tends to refer only to the predominantly native
1568, he found some gold at the mouth, he erroneously thought that this could be one of the locations in which King Solomon (the Israelite monarch) obtained gold for his temple in Jerusalem. Mendaña then named the islands after King Solomon--Solomon Islands. Papuan-speaking hunter-gatherers from New Guinea were settling the southern and eastern Solomon Islands by 25, 000 BC. They were the only inhabitants for thousands of years, until Austronesian-speaking proto-Melanesians began moving in around 4000 BC. Most people lived in small villages on tribal lands, practicing shifting cultivation, fishing, hunting, carving, weaving and canoe building. They worshipped ancestors. They were also head-hunters and cannibalism was common. Demography The population of the Solomon Islands is estimated to be approximately 450,000. It is comprised predominantly of Melanesians with the rest of the population consisting of
*Kim is an electrically engine driver. - modifiers cf. Kim is an unbelievably skilful driver. Grammatical category: A grammatical category is an analytical class within the grammar of a language, whose members have the same syntactic distribution and recur as structural unit throughout the language, and which share a common property which can be semantic or syntactic Grammatical categories for nouns: I. Inherent categories for nouns: - number: Eng. dog - dogs Saliba (Austronesian): natu-gu natu-gu-wao child-my child-my-PLURAL - gender or noun class: It. il libro `the book' la casa `the house' Swahili (Niger-Congo): m-tu m-zuri `a nice man' n-yumba n-zuri `a nice house' ki-tu ki-zuri `a nice thing' - definiteness: a house the house Sw. ett hus huset det röda huset II. Relational categories for nouns: case
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