21 ST CENTURY LITERATURE: DIMENSIONS OF THE PHILIPPINE LITERARY HISTORY
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GEOGRAPHY
Philippines , island country of Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. It is an archipelago consisting of more than 7,000 islands and islets lying about 500 miles (800 km) off the coast of Vietnam. Manila is the capital, but nearby Quezon City is the country’s most-populous city. Both are part of the National Capital Region (Metro Manila), located on Luzon, the largest island. The second largest island of the Philippines is Mindanao, in the southeast. Philippines The Philippines takes its name from Philip II, who was king of Spain during the Spanish colonization of the islands in the 16th century. Because it was under Spanish rule for 333 years and under U.S. tutelage for a further 48 years, the Philippines has many cultural affinities with the West. It is, for example, its one of the most-populous Asian country (following India) with English as an official language and one of only two predominantly Roman Catholic countries in Asia (the other being East Timor). Despite the prominence of such Anglo-European cultural characteristics, the peoples of the Philippines are Asian in consciousness and aspiration.
ETHNIC
The Philippines is inhabited by more than 182 ethnolinguistic groups, many of which are classified as "Indigenous Peoples" under the country's Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997. Traditionally-Muslim peoples from the southernmost island group of Mindanao are usually categorized together as Moro peoples, whether they are classified as Indigenous peoples or not. About 142 are classified as non-Muslim Indigenous people groups, and about 19 ethnolinguistic groups are classified as neither Indigenous nor Moro. Various migrant groups have also had a significant presence throughout the country's history. The Muslim-majority ethnic groups ethnolinguistic groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan are collectively referred to as the Moro people, a broad category that includes some Indigenous people groups and some non-Indigenous people groups . With a population of over 5 million people, they comprise about 5% of the country's total population. The Spanish called them Moros after the Moors, despite no resemblance or cultural ties to them apart from their religion.
LANGUAGE
The Philippines is made up of 7,641 islands, which has given rise to a vast number of languages. The Philippines currently has 183 live languages, the vast majority of which are indigenous or regional. Any two random people in the Philippines have an 80% probability of growing up speaking a different language, making the Philippines one of the world’s most linguistically diverse countries. In fact, the Philippines celebrates its linguistic diversity for an entire month in August (known as Buwan ng Wika , or Language Month). Some of the most in-demand languages are spoken in The Philippines. Languages in the Philippines can be classified as either official or unofficial. In this article, we’ll discuss the official languages of the Philippines, as well as some of the most commonly spoken unofficial languages. We’ll also touch upon the major immigrant languages, and discuss why there are so many endangered indigenous languages.
From 1565, the Philippines were under Spanish colonial administration for 300 years; Spanish was the official language during that time. According to the 1935 Constitution, Spanish was reinstated as an official language alongside English, but it was relegated to an “optional and voluntary language” in 1987. Although just approximately 0.5 percent of the Philippines’ 100 million people speak Spanish, it still has the highest concentration of Spanish speakers in Asia. However, the roots of Spanish have not totally left the Philippines, as a third of the Filipino language is made up of 4,000 “loan words” derived from Spanish words. This heritage is clear from the start, as the word “hello” ( kumusta ) is derived from the Spanish phrase “how are you?”
BUENOS DIAS! GOOD MORNING!
SOIS TODAS AMABLES Y HERMOSAS YOU ARE ALL BEAUTIFUL!
Todos los que me escucharon, pasaron la prueba!!! EVERYONE WHO LISTEN TO ME, WILL PASS THE EXAM/TEST!
English literature
THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who invaded Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries brought with them the common Germanic metre ; but of their earliest oral poetry, probably used for panegyric, magic, and short narrative, little or none survives.
THE renaissance PERIOD (1550-1660) In this period England’s population doubled; prices rocketed, rents followed, old social loyalties dissolved, and new industrial, agricultural, and commercial veins were first tapped . In a tradition of literature remarkable for its exacting and brilliant achievements, the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods have been said to represent the most brilliant century of all.
THE Restoration PERIOD For others, it excited the desire to celebrate kingship and even to turn the events of the new reign into signs of a divinely ordained scheme of things. Violent political conflict may have ceased, but the division between royalists and republicans still ran through literature of the period.
18 th century literature
ROMANTIC PERIOD ERA As a term to cover the most distinctive writers who flourished in the last years of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th, “Romantic” is indispensable but also a little misleading: there was no self-styled “Romantic movement” at the time, and the great writers of the period did not call themselves Romantics .
VICTORIAN ERA This new status as the world’s first urban and industrialized society was responsible for the extraordinary wealth, vitality, and self-confidence of the period. Abroad these energies expressed themselves in the growth of the British Empire. At home they were accompanied by rapid social change and fierce intellectual controversy.
20 TH CENTURY PERIOD The 20th century opened with great hope but also with some apprehension, for the new century marked the final approach to a new millennium.
21 ST CENTURY PERIOD The 21st century is the current century in the Anno Domini or Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2001 and will end on 31 December 2100. It is the first century of the 3rd millennium. The rise of a global economy and Third World consumerism marked the beginning of the century, along with increased private enterprise and deepening concern over terrorism after the September 11 attacks in 2001.