Given the chance to rename our Country, can you suggest some??

Question

PHILIPPINES = MALAYKO

We belong to Malay race but we're now internationally raced by different nationality, a bit confused caused by rampant cross breeding by our fellow Filipinos, Isn't that cute, when somebody asks you what country you belong from , just say "MALAYKO"

Answer 1

Malayko? OMG, that sounds terrible. It sounds as if you're lost or something. I can hear it now-
A guy comes and asks you, "Where do you live?"
You reply, "Malayko".
"DUH you don't know where you live?"
"Malayko nga", you would reply.
And it would go on and on dahling.

I agree with the others dahling, Philippines bests suits us. At most Filipinas.

I know some would still want it to be Philippines but the Philippines,USA.

Answer 2

Austronesia

A lot of us believe that we are from Malays Race... well a bit yeah but...according to contemporary research by anthropologists, linguists (Blust, Reid, Ross, Pawley) and archaeologists (Bellwood) propose the opposite to be true. The vast majority of Filipinos are said to be descended from Austronesian-speaking migrants which arrived in what is now the Philippines from Southern China and Taiwan during the Iron age.
Filipinos are sometimes said to be part of the Malay race, however modern anthropologists contend the classification has little taxonomic validity. The Malay race was a term coined in 1795 by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach to refer to the brown-skinned inhabitants of the Indian (Malay) archipelago, Oceania, Melanesia, and Australia. It was one of five other categories which Blumenbach created for classifying humans, including what he called the black race and the yellow race. Since then, anthropologists have debunked this concept, citing the complexities of human races being unable to fit into a handful of oversimplified categories. Genetically, there are no distinct units of human population and all human beings are genetically related.
The term Malay is also considered misleading because it gives the impression that the route for the populating of the Philippines was via Malaysia, when actually, the current Malays of the rest of the Malay Archipelago and of mainland Malaysia are the descendants of Austronesian-speaking immigrants who first went to the Philippines before further venturing south into what is now Malaysia, Indonesia, East Timor, as well as to the other Pacific islands.

There were also pre-existing aboriginal inhabitants of the Philippines--the Negrito groups. Their ancestors arrived thousands of years prior to the Austronesian-speaking migrants arrival. Their descendants, the Aetas, constitute a very small minority of the population.

The Philippines, prior to the arrival of the Spaniards in 1521, was not ruled or united as a single nation. Instead, the inhabitants were mostly divided into ethnolinguistic tribal states, or barangays, with some acquiring cultural sophistication, including caste systems (Maharlika).

Answer 3

Humidity Central

Answer 4

Maharlika

Answer 5

Well, according to my history teacher, the first name of the Philippines is "MAI". Yes, Mai, M-A-I. Pronounced as "my". You wouldn't want us to switch our country's name back to that, do you?

Answer 6

How about PI? And the people will be called Philippinos....Lots of foreign people don't know how to say our country's name, and how its people should be called, so let's make it just easier for them.. Sometimes it get's offending when they keep on doing that.

Answer 7

No thank you. The name "Philippines" didn't happen by accident. It was given that name for a good reason - to honor a would-be king of Spain. And as a nation, we do have a long bitter-sweet history attached to that name. So let's keep it. MABUHAY!!!!!!

Your attempt at cute humor didn't escape me...as you know "malayko" translates to "I don't know...I have nothing to do with it."

Peace!!!

Answer 8

Manila

Answer 9

I'd rename Philippines to Filipinas.

It's much more closer to our culture and people.

Answer 10

Republic of Pinaka.