Negros was originally known as Buglas, an old Visayan word meaning "cut off". The original natives of the island are the dark-skinned Ati Negritos, from where the island would later derive its name after an expedition of Castilian conquistadors in April 1565 came in contact with the Ati in what is now the town of Ilog.
Southern Negros—in particular, Candoni—came to be settled by precolonial migrants from the island of Panay. These came to be known as the Negrense highlanders (Hiligaynon and Cebuano: bukidnong Buglasnon or Magahat). A second wave of migrants from Panay came to inhabit the northwestern portion of the island; they are known today as the Panayan highlanders (Hiligaynon and Cebuano: bukidnong Panaynon or Suludnon), who continue to reside on Panay as well as on Negros. The Madyaas Confederation would later exert nominal control over the villages and sakups of the Panayan highlanders.
The Negrense people (/nəˈɡrɛnseɪ/; Hiligaynon and Cebuano pronunciation: [nɛˈɡɾɛnsɛ]; Spanish pronunciation: [neˈɣɾense]) are the native cultural group of the Negros provinces and Siquijor in the Philippines.
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Precolonial period
Negros was originally known as Buglas, an old Visayan word meaning "cut off". The original natives of the island are the dark-skinned Ati Negritos, from where the island would later derive its name after an expedition of Castilian conquistadors in April 1565 came in contact with the Ati in what is now the town of Ilog.
Southern Negros—in particular, Candoni—came to be settled by precolonial migrants from the island of Panay. These came to be known as the Negrense highlanders (Hiligaynon and Cebuano: bukidnong Buglasnon or Magahat). A second wave of migrants from Panay came to inhabit the northwestern portion of the island; they are known today as the Panayan highlanders (Hiligaynon and Cebuano: bukidnong Panaynon or Suludnon), who continue to reside on Panay as well as on Negros. The Madyaas Confederation would later exert nominal control over the villages and sakups of the Panayan highlanders.
The Negrense people (/nəˈɡrɛnseɪ/; Hiligaynon and Cebuano pronunciation: [nɛˈɡɾɛnsɛ]; Spanish pronunciation: [neˈɣɾense]) are the native cultural group of the Negros provinces and Siquijor in the Philippines.
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