What is "ilocano"

Usage examples of "ilocano".

Eighty per cent or more of those now in Hawaii are of the Ilocano tribe--thriftiest and most hard-working of all the Filipinos.

Ramos, Ilocano, was a tao tenant--a common peasant --of the Province of Tarlac.

Families keep arriving from beyond the boundaries of the Province--even from Ilocano towns far to the north.

The current explanation of this is that they are Chinese mestizos: their coast was constantly exposed the raids of Chinese pirates, a certain number of whom settled there and took Ilocano women as wives.

He would trek up into the wild lands of Nueva Ecija, whither, for some years now, his brother Ilocanos had been moving.

Chinese blood may produce long-continued favorable results, if the case of the Ilocanos is correctly described.

Filipinos are quite commonly found to be Ilocanos, while the members of the tribe are credited with accomplishing more steady work than any other element of the population.

Students of the inheritance of mental and moral traits may be interested to note that while the ordinary Chinese mestizo in the Philippines is a man of probity, who has the high regard of his European business associates, the Ilocanos, supposed descendants of pirates, are considered rather tricky and dishonest.