“The Spanish Legacy”
By Bonifacio Sibayan
Purpose: To inform
Audience: High school students aged 12-17 years old
Tone: Light and educational
Point of View: Third Person Point of View
Thesis Statement: In the old times, the Spanish bore such a great influence over
Philippine languages and Philippine life.
The Spanish used the Philippine native languages to Christianize he natives.
A. The friars discovered that it was easier to preach the Good News in the
native’s own languages.
B. It was easier for priests to learn the native language and preach in it, than for
the natives to learn Spanish and learn Christianity in it.
II.
The Spanish mixed terms from their own language with the Philippine native
languages.
A. The Spanish retained certain key concepts in their own language because
these terms did not have equivalent in the native languages. They also did
this so the natives could not equate these terms with their pagan beliefs.
1. These concepts include: God, Holy Trinity, Holy Ghost, Virgin Mary, the
Pope, grace, sin, cross, hell, Holy Church, Sunday, and the names of
the Sacraments.
2. These words can be found in the first book to be published in Tagalog,
named the Doctrina Cristina. This book was published in 1593.
B. This was the beginning of the marriage of the Spanish and the Philippine
languages that came under the Spanish Christian influence.
C. This allowed the “common people” to start learning Spanish not only in
religion but also at home and in everyday life.
III.
The Spanish, and a minority of Filipinos, also used the Spanish language in the
domains of higher education, government, and law.
A. Very few Filipinos learned Spanish well.
1. The University of Sto. Tomas only conferred 2,169 degrees from 1634
to 1865.
2. Toward the end of the Spanish regime, only 2.46% of an adult
population of 4.65 million spoke Spanish.
B. The few Filipinos did learn Spanish (referred to as illustrados) were the same
people exerted an enduring influence in the domains of Philippine education,
government, and law.
C. Spanish was an official language of the Philippines up until 1986.
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