KAZAKBA
The art of engaging into dialogues in the form of proverbs using “panseb a lalag (hyperbolic speech, flowery expressions, or way of eloquence)”, parallel thoughts and sayings, synonymy, antonymic, and complementary phrases. This is a usual part of any Iranaon (Maranao) affairs or occasions where the banto (guests) and the mao-onay (hosts) make their statements.
IN COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE

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Ba ngka den tatangkeden
A papanok ka so nori
Na apay bo so samber iyan
Na da ngka kasampiroti

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...............ANCIENT FORM OF GOVERNMENT OF RANAO................

Lanao “Ranao” is divided into four confederations (4 Pangampong) principality,
1. Unayan
2. Masiu
3. Bayabao
4. Baloi

Every states or Pangampong is divided into Suku (District)
1. Unayan
...............a) Sedepan a Unayan Suku. west Unayan District
...............b) Sebangan a Unayan Suku, east Unayan District

2. Masiu
...............a) Sebangan a Masiu suku, East Masiu Distict
...............b) Sedepan a Masiu Suku, We… Continue

WHERE THE GRAVE OF SULTAN KUDARAT?

Sultan Muhammad Dipatuan Kudarat is a Muslim ruler, Hero enthroned 7th Sultan of Maguindanao sultanate, who begun to assert his leadership in the year 1619 and reigned the Sultanate of Maguindanao from January 1625 to 1671 A.D.

Kudarat is a son of Sultan Laot Buisan of Malabang 6th ruler of Maguindanao, he was known to the Spaniards as Corralat and to some Dutch writers as Guserat. By 1645, he was already using the title of “sultan”. As a young man he… Continue

Ancient name of Unayan Pangampong

Marogong is the ancient name of Unayan pangampong, the word Marogong derived from the root word “Rogong” which means sound of thunder, marogong is a plural of rogong, given by Dimaampao kalinan the founding ancestor of Unayan principality,

The history narrated that when Sharif awlis, a Muslim missionary famous in all of Sulu and Mindanao, visited Bembaran and taught the Islamic faith. The people there refused to accept it, though, so God became angry an… Continue

“So kaknala ko btad o ridoay na saopak ko kapakataban”

So Isipan ko Kadakl o Manosiya (Demographics):

• So kadakl o pizakatawan o Israel 14 million
• So kambabagibagi iyan sa doniya: 7 million sa America
5 million sa Asia
2 million sa Europe
100 sa Africa
• So kadakl o Muslim sa Doniya: 1.5 billion
• So kambabagibagi iyan: 1 billion sa Asia
400 million sa Africa
44 million sa Europe
6 million sa America
• Oman i ikalima a manosiya ko taw ko doniya na Muslim,
• Oman i sakat… Continue