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Where does “barangay” come from?

Barangay comes from Old Tagalog ᜊᜎᜅᜁ, a term for a small maritime community or settlement in pre-colonial Philippines.

barangay (English): The smallest local government unit in the...

Definitions

  1. The smallest local government unit in the...

Ancestry of “barangay”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TagalogbarangayThe smallest local government unit in the...
2Old Tagalogᜊᜎᜅᜁ—
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