Arena of valor alice rule 344/25/2024 There is more English than Spanish spoken in the Islands besides, Spanish never penetrated into the very lives of the peasants,Īs English penetrates to-day by way of the school-house. Clearly Spanish would not be a better medium than English: for to-day Than between the native form and the English rendering. There is likely to be no less variation between two Visayan versions of the same story, or between a Tagalog and a Visayan, In the third place, the form of prose tales among the Filipinos is not stereotyped and Of distinctly different languages represented by the originals might be baffling even to the reader interested in linguistics,Įspecially as our method of approach has been from the point of view of cycles of stories, and not from the point of view In theįirst place, the object in recording these tales has been a literary one, not a linguistic one. Perhaps no apology is required for not printing the vernacular herewith nevertheless an explanation might be made. The language in which these stories are presented is the language in which they were collected and written down,-English. Their importance consists in their relationship to the body of world fiction. It is therefore from this point of view that these tales have been put Lying as it does at the very doors of China and Japan,Ĭonnected as it is ethnically with the Malayan and Indian civilizations, Occidentalized as it has been for three centuriesĪnd more, it stands at the junction of East and West. The Philippine archipelago, from the very nature of its geographical position and its political history,Ĭannot but be a significant field to the student of popular stories. Of Oriental Märchen already in existence. They are given to the public now in the hope that they will be no mean or uninteresting addition to the volumes The folk-tales in this volume, which were collected in the Philippines during the years from 1908 to 1914, have not appeared
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