who discovered philippines?

Answer 1

The first human beings probably reached the Philippines about 40,000 years ago at roughly the same time as they reached Australia and New Guinea.

From around 1200 in the Philippines comes the historical legend of the Ten Datus from Sabah who settled in the Visayas sometime around 1212.

The first recorded visit from the West is the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan on Homonhon Island, southeast of Samar on March 16, 1521.

Answer 2

To be politically correct, I would say that the natives "discovered" the Philippines.

As Wiki states:
"Archeological and paleontological evidence suggests that Homo sapiens existed in Palawan about 50,000 BC. The Aetas are thought to have arrived in the Philippines more than 30,000 BC through land bridges, possibly from China or the Andaman Islands.
The ancestors of the vast majority of the Filipino people, the Austronesians from Taiwan, settled in northern Luzon around 2500 BC. They spread to the rest of the Philippines and later colonized most of Maritime Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific Islands. Muslim, Chinese and Indian traders made contact with the Philippines during the course of the next thousand years until the arrival of the Europeans.

Sailing for the Spanish, the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew were the first Europeans to arrive in the archipelago in 1521."

Hence, Ferdiand Magellan did not discover the Philippines since the natives have already been there when the former came upon them.

Answer 3

Magellan did.

Answer 4

Phils are a combination of Spanish and Japanese (or other types of Asians).