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Bugtong is a Tagalog riddle (palaisipan) that showcases the Pilipinowit, literary talent, and keen observation of surroundings.
It involvesreferences to one or two images that symbolize the characteristicsof a unknown object that is to be guessed.
Bugtungan is the playingof bugtong.Bugtong Tagalog started generations ago and has passed from onegeneration to another.
New ones are being created with the passageof time but to be considered a true Filipino bugtong the riddle shouldmeet all the elements of a Tagalog bugtong .
These elements are:
A Pilipino bugtong, or Tagalog riddle, is a short, one-liner, statement.
The statement is consist of two phrases.
Each phrase refers to animage, or characteristic of an image, that symbolizes another objectthat is to be identified.
The two phrases end in words that rhyme.
The object to be identified must relate to our daily lives, personalexperience, and observation of common things around us.