Sasmuan
Sign in to saveSasmuan, officially the Municipality of Sasmuan (, ; ), formerly known by its Spanish name Sexmoán (), is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the , it has a population of people, making it the least populated municipality in the province.
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Sasmuan, officially the Municipality of Sasmuan (, ; ), formerly known by its Spanish name Sexmoán (), is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the , it has a population of people, making it the least populated municipality in the province.
==Etymology== It was known as Sexmoán until January 15, 1991. The town's former name in Spanish was Sexmoán, as was initially transcribed by Spanish friars. In Spanish, the letter used to be pronounced as a voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/, identical to the digraph "sh" in English. It was derived from the ancient Kapampangan root word sasmo, which means to meet, according to a 17th-century Kapampangan dictionary. Sasmuan therefore is synonymous with "pitagmuan" or "meeting place of the datus" or "meeting point". It was named "Sasmuan" because it is where the Pampangos meet when they were at war with the Chinese in Guagua.