SPANISH INFLUENCE ON FILIPINO

CULTURE
1521

The spanish arrived and began to colonizing the philippines.

Spanish settlement in the Philippines first took place in the 16th

century, during the Spanish colonial period of the islands. The
conquistador Miguel Lpez de Legazpi founded the first Spanish
settlement in Cebu in 1565, and later established Manila as the capital of
the Spanish East Indies in 1571. The Philippine Islands is named after King
Philip II of Spain, and it became a territory of the Viceroyalty of New
Spain which was governed from Mexico City until the 19th century, when
Mexico obtained independence. From 1821, the Philippine Islands were ruled
directly from Madrid, Spain.
MIGUEL LOPEZ DE LEGAZPI
- Was the first Gobernor General in the philippines. In year 1565 until
his death.
1571 - he stablished the manila, which became the capital of the new
spanish colony and spains major trading port in east asia(east indies).
August 20, 1572 Miguel Lopez de Legazpi was died in manila Philippines.
LANGUAGE
Philippine Spanish (Spanish: Espaol filipino, Castellano filipino) is a variant
of standard Spanish spoken in the Philippines. It is a Spanish dialect of
the Spanish language. The variant is very similar to Mexican Spanish,
because of Mexican and Latin American emigration to the Spanish East
Indies (Philippines) over the years.
Chavacano, a Spanish-based creole, is spoken in the Zamboanga
Peninsula (where it is an official dialect), Davao, and Cotabato in Mindanao,
and Cavite in Luzon.
Filipinos today speak a variety of
different languages including Cebuano, Tagalog, Ilocano, Ilonggo,
and Bikolano, in addition to English all of which contain up to several
thousand Spanish loanwords.

The most common languages spoken in the Philippines today are English
and Filipino, the national language that is a standardised form of Tagalog.
Spanish was an official language of the country until immediately after
the People Power Revolution in February 1986 and the subsequent
ratification of the 1987 Constitution. The new charter dropped Spanish as an
official language.
It is no surprise that over this long period of time, the Spanish language
made its way into the Filipino dialects. Today it is estimated that about 20%
of Tagalog words are Spanish. In fact, the common Tagalog greeting
Kumusta was derived from the Spanish Como esta (How are you). Here
are a few very common words that came from Spanish (the spellings have
been Filipino-ized):
Diyos (God)
Eskwela (school)
Gwapo (handsome)
Kalye (street)
Kabayo (horse)
Kwento (story)
Karne (meat)
Pamilya (family)
Sapatos (shoes)
Bintana (window)

NAME OF THE PHILIPPINES

The name of the Philippines comes from the king of Spain Philip II. It was
given by the Spanish explorer Ruy Lpez de Villalobos who named the islands
of Samarand Leyte "Las Islas Felipinas" (The Philippine Islands), during his
expedition in 1543. Throughout the colonial period, the name Felipinas
(Philippines) was used, and became the official name of the Philippines.
There are many provinces in the Philippines with Spanish names, such
as Nueva Vizcaya, Nueva cija (Nueva
Ecija), Laguna, Isabela, Quirino, Aurora, La Unin (La
Union), Marinduque, Antique, Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, Nueva
Segovia and Valle de Compostela.

Many cities and towns are also named in Spanish, such as Medellin, La
Libertad, Naga City (prior to 1919 was known as Nueva Cceres), Las
Pias, Prosperidad,Isabela, Sierra Bullones, Angeles, La
Paz, Esperanza, Buenavista, Pilar, La Trinidad, Garcia Hernandez, Trece
Martires, Los Baos, and many more. There are numerous other towns and
cities named after saints, such as San Fernando, Santa Rosa, San Isidro, San
Jos, San Juan and San Pablo, as well as after Spanish places
like Madrid, Santander, Toledo, Cdiz, Valencia, Murcia, Lucena,
and Pamplona.
Other native Filipino names are spelled using Spanish orthography, such
as Cagayn de Oro, Paraaque, and Ceb.

RELIGION
The Philippines is one of two predominantly Roman Catholic countries in Asia,
the other being East Timor. About 86% of the population are Catholics. About
5% are Muslim, and about 5% practised other religion, and those with no
religion.
Filipinos at home set up altars in the Hispanic tradition, adorned with Catholic
images, flowers, and candles. During fiestas, most communities organise
church services and religious processions in honour of a patron saint, hold
funfairs and concerts, and feast with a variety of Filipino foods.

Festivities
All major Roman Catholic holy days are observed as official national holidays
in the Philippines. Spanish-Mexicanculture and Christianity has influenced the
customs and traditions of the Philippines.
Every year on the 3rd Sunday of January, the Philippines celebrates the
festival of the "Santo Nio" (Holy Child Jesus), the largest being held in Cebu
City.

Holiday

1 January - New Years Day (Bagong Taon)

March or April - Semana Santa (Holy Week or Easter)

31 October to 2 November - Day of the Dead, Araw ng mga Kaluluwa

(All Souls' Day), and Todos Los Santos (All Saints' Day) where families
spend much of the 3 days and 3 evenings visiting their ancestral graves,
showing respect and honoring the departed relatives by feasting,
decorating and offering prayers.

24 December - Nochebuena (The Good night or Christmas Eve)

25 December - Christmas (Pasko)

ARCHETICTURE
Have shape the cities of modern day philippines. Before arrived in the
philippines, building were made from native materials around the indigenous
people such as bamboo, wood, mud, etc. The buildings had single room in
which families stayed in. After they spaniards arrived, building were made
with stone imitating churches and houses seen in mexico and spain.
However, native resources were used since it imposible to obtianed the
materials used in mexico and spain.