inayan
in-AH-yan
A community value that prohibits any act that causes harm to anyone or anything, living or non-living. Not a law but a shared moral reflex — it is inayan to dump in rivers, to waste food, to damage what sustains you.
Etymology
Kankanaey language, spoken in the Cordillera region of the Philippines. The word functions as both an ethical principle and a social corrective.
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