1. LITIRATURE OF ILOCOS
REGION
( REGION 1 )

2. The terms "Iloko" and
"Ilokano" are different.
"Iloko" is the language
"Ilokano" refers to the
people or the ethnicity of
the people who speak the
Iloko language.

3. HISTORY OF THE ILOKOS
LITERATURE

4. • Families and clans arrived by viray or
bilog, meaning "boat“
• The term Ilokano originates from i, "from", and looc, "cove or bay", thus
"people of the bay.“
• Ilokanos also refer to themselves as
Samtoy, a contraction from the Ilokano
phrase sao mi ditoy, "our language
here"

9. Precolonial times to the
19th century