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BANGSA— Nation, ethnic group, descent group

BANGSAMORO— The Philippine Muslim nation

BANTINGAN— Bridewealth

BANYAGA— Chattel slave

BARABANGSA— Royal lineage; the high nobility

BARANGAY— A political subunit of a municipality. Originally a precolonial political institution in the Philippines, the barangay was a unit of thirty to one hundred houses under the authority of an autocratic headman (datu). The institution was adapted by Spanish colonial administrators to suit their needs (with the name barangay eventually changed to barrio ). The term and institution were resurrected by the martial law regime as part of its attempt to equate nationalism with autocratic leadership.

BAYUK— A ballad or chanted poem that relates a story, usually a love story