Notable Literary Works in Philippine languages

Florante at Laura

Florante at Laura

Florante at Laura by Francisco Baltazar is considered as one of the masterpieces of Philippine literature. Balagtas wrote the epic during his imprisonment. The work itself is dedicated to María Asuncion Rivera, his sweetheart, whom he nicknamed "M. A...

, by Francisco Balagtas

Francisco Balagtas

Francisco Baltazar y dela Cruz , known much more widely through his nom-de-plume Francisco Balagtas, was a prominent Filipino poet, and is widely considered as the Tagalog equivalent of William Shakespeare for his impact on Filipino literature...

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Availability of literature in Filipino outside of the Philippines

Although almost every medium to large city in the world has at least one Filipino store, these stores do not stock any form of literature in any Philippine language beyond the small ("pocket book") romance novels and the occasional cookbooks. Even the Filipino celebrity magazines commonly available are written mostly in English.

Outside of the Philippines, literature in Filipino is only stocked by specialist foreign language bookshops such as Schoenhofs in Boston and one Asian bookshop in Tokyo.

See also

• Literature of the Philippines
  Literature of the Philippines
  Philippine literature is the literature associated with the Philippines and includes the legends of prehistory, and the colonial legacy of the Philippines, written in both Indigenous, and Hispanic languages. Most of the notable literature of the Philippines was written during the Spanish period and...
  
  
• Philippine literature in English
  Philippine literature in English
  Philippine literature in English has its roots in the efforts of the United States, then engaged in a war with Filipino nationalist forces at the end of the 19th century. By 1901, public education was institutionalized in the Philippines, with English serving as the medium of instruction. That...
  
  
• Philippine literature in Spanish
  Philippine Literature in Spanish
  Philippine literature in Spanish is a body of literature made by Filipino writers in the Spanish language. Today, this corpus is the third largest in the whole corpus of Philippine literature . It is slightly larger than the Philippine literature in the vernacular languages...
  
  
• Philippine languages
  Philippine languages
  The Philippine languages are a 1991 proposal by Robert Blust that all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi—except Sama–Bajaw and a few languages of Palawan—form a subfamily of Austronesian languages...
  
  
• Cebuano literature
  Cebuano literature
  Cebuano literature refers to the literary works written in Cebuano, a language widely spoken in the southern Philippines. The term is most often extended to cover the oral literary forms in both indigenous and colonial Philippines....
  
  
• Ilokano literature
  Ilokano literature
  Ilokano literature or Iloko literature pertains to the literary works of writers of Ilocano ancestry regardless of the language used - be it Iloko, English, Spanish or other foreign and Philippine languages. The terms "Iloko" and "Ilokano" are different...
  
  
• Pangasinan literature
  Pangasinan literature
  The Pangasinan language belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian languages branch of the Austronesian languages family. Pangasinan is spoken primarily in the province of Pangasinan in the Philippines, located on the west central area of the island of Luzon along the Lingayen Gulf.-History:The earliest...
  
  
• Tagalog literature
• Waray literature
  Waray literature
  Earliest accounts of this literature date back to 1668 when a Spanish Jesuit by the name of Fr. Ignatio Francisco Alzina documented the poetic forms such as the candu, haya, ambahan, canogon, bical, balac, siday and awit. He also described the susumaton and posong, early forms of narratives...
  
  

External links

• Philippine Folklore Stories A collection of Philippine folklore myths and legend, collected by an American.
• Project Gutenberg of the Philippines website
• Texts available in Cebuano at Project Gutenberg
• Texts available in Iloko at Project Gutenberg
• Texts available in Tagalog at Project Gutenberg