Filipinos (Fil: Mga Pilipino); feminine: Filipinas (Fil: Mga Pilipina), or the Filipino people (Fil: Lahing Pilipino) 
listen (help·info), refers to the people of the Philippines, an archipelago in Southeast Asia, and their descendants abroad.[2] It is estimated that their population is more than 100 million worldwide.
Colloquially, they refer to themselves as Pinoy (feminine: Pinay), which is formed by taking the last four letters of Pilipino and adding the diminutive suffix -y.[2]Philippine languages lack /f/ as a phoneme and is substituted by /p/ turning Filipino into Pilipino.
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