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It explains the baybayin syllabary’s role in writing songs, riddles, proverbs, lyric and short poems, and epic portions, then examines cultural impact after Roman alphabet replacement. The content catalogs surviving song forms across Tagalog, Ilocano, Bontoc, and Ivatan groups, including lullabies, war songs, labor songs, love songs, and ritual courtship pieces.","Early Philippine Literature  \nDR. LILIA QUINDOZA-SANTIAGO   \n• The early inhabitants of the Philippine archipelago had a native alphabet or syllabary which among the Tagalogs was called baybayin, an inscription akin to Sanskrit.  \n• It was through the baybayin that literary forms such as songs, riddles and proverbs, lyric and short poems as well as parts of epic poems were written.  \n• The bulk of these early literature however was just passed on through oral recitation and incantation and were transcribed into the Roman alphabet only centuries later by Spanish chroniclers and other scholars.  \n• It is believed that replacement of the baybayin by the Roman alphabet must have obliterated a significant aspect of indigenous Philippine literature.  \n• Among the early forms, it is the awit or the song that has endured. Most ethnolinguistic communities remember the native tunes and lyrics of their songs.  \n• Fathers Chirino and Colin noted that among the Tagalogs, there were some 16 song forms for various occasions. Among these are the uyayi or hele, a lullaby for putting a child to sleep; the soliranin is a song for travelers while the talindaw is the seafarers song; the kumintangis a war song; the maluway is a song for collective labor while the kundiman is a melancholic love song.  \n• The dalit, is a song-ritual usually sung to the rhythm of dance. Thepanambitan is a courtship song while thepamanhikan is a songritual of the would-be bridegroom to his would-be bride as he asks permission to marry her. The subli is another dance-ritual song of courtship and marriage.  \n• In the north, among the Ilocanos, the more popular song forms are the dallot and the duayya, both love songs, and the dung-aw which is a dirge or a wake song.  \n• The Bontoc of Mountain Province have thebagbagto, a song ritual for harvest, while the Ivatan up in the Batanes islands have three most popular folk song forms: the laji, the kanta and the kalusan.  \n• The laji is a lyric rendition of a song usually sung after a day’s work when people gather together in their houses to chat and drink the native wine, palek and just find time to be merry. Dr. Florentino Hornedo’s research ofthe Ivatan laji yielded this following sample :  \n• MAPAWAKONA KANU NAPNU DU VAKAGA DINAHURIS (Sung by informant Juana Cataluna)  \nMapaw ako na kanu napnu nu vakaga nidutdut mo a dinahuri a machipaywayam du nadpun a kadaisa mo a minaypanananud nu mudag a inawa, inawa nu vatutuk, paychalugisugitan nu pinatapatana vuhung nu tadina, a vuhung nu tadina; nia pachiduvangi chu a nanaryo nu lasaa inawa ko nu asi nu tugitnginiladang ko nu mutin, ina nikarusan ko nu pinsuan a tavayay duka di chu dulivanya mapaytanung sa huvid du putuhana nauri su madinay duyu kahenaken  \n• I HAVE BECOME LIGHTER  \nI have become lighter than a basket of beaten cotton in the presence of so many relatives all heavily adorned with double necklaces of gold and precious beads;  \nheavy earrings of gold hung  \nlike leaves upon their ears;  \nbut I sit in their midst with a necklace of lasa seeds interspersed with the humble seed of the tugitugi and cheap green beads of glass, adorned with a cross made of squash shell because I know not how to tie properly a string around my neck, which is the proper and decorous thing for a young  \nwoman  \n• Tagalog riddles are called bugtong, while the Ilocanos call these burburtia. Usually, riddles are made to rhyme and utilize the talinghaga, a form of metaphor whose signification eventually conveys the meaning of the answer to the riddle. Riddles such as these for instance illustrate the use of thetalinghaga:  \nSometimes, the riddles are relayed through familiar indigenous forms of poetry such as the ambahan,which is a monorhyming heptasyllabic poem attributed to the Hanunuu-Mangyan ethnic group in Mindoro. Apart from relaying riddles, ambahans are also used to narrate common folk experiences. 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