Pre-colonial Philippine literature was primarily oral and focused on myths, legends, and folk traditions. The Spanish colonization introduced Christianity and the Spanish language, which became dominant in literature. Over time, European influences like legends and traditions blended with local forms like songs, corridos, and moro-moros. Efforts were also made to document and translate ancient oral works into written form in Tagalog and other Philippine languages.
Pre-colonial Philippine literature was primarily oral and focused on myths, legends, and folk traditions. The Spanish colonization introduced Christianity and the Spanish language, which became dominant in literature. Over time, European influences like legends and traditions blended with local forms like songs, corridos, and moro-moros. Efforts were also made to document and translate ancient oral works into written form in Tagalog and other Philippine languages.
Pre-colonial Philippine literature was primarily oral and focused on myths, legends, and folk traditions. The Spanish colonization introduced Christianity and the Spanish language, which became dominant in literature. Over time, European influences like legends and traditions blended with local forms like songs, corridos, and moro-moros. Efforts were also made to document and translate ancient oral works into written form in Tagalog and other Philippine languages.
Introduced Spanish as the medium of communication and
Spanish became the language of Philippine literature. Works of pre-colonial Philippine literature were mainly oral, The teaching of the Christian Doctrine became the basis of including but not limited to epics, legends, songs, riddles, religious practices. and proverbs. Spaniards brought European legends and traditions and were Our ancestors in a pre-colonial era were pagans; hence, subjects of various forms of literature were about gods and assimilated in our songs, corridos, and moro-moros. Glaiza Marie B. Carullo Works of ancient literature were collected and translated to goddesses, spiritual/mythical creatures. Tagalog and other dialects. 12-STEM C