Mariano Datahan Attributed to Pinay, ancestor of the Eskaya people
Date
ca. 1920–1940
Setting and usage
Song, prayer, teaching, reproduction of traditional literature. Intended to establish a distinct indigenous culture on the island of Bohol in the Philippines.
Ethnicity
3,000 (2013)[1]
Users
550 (2013)[1]
Purpose
Cultural auxiliary language
Writing system
Eskayan script (syllabary)
Sources
Encryption of Cebuano, with lexical influence from Spanish and English
Language codes
ISO 639-3
esy
Glottolog
eska1234
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Eskayan is an artificial auxiliary language of the Eskaya people of Bohol, an island province of the Philippines. It is grammatically Boholano, the native language of Bohol, with a substituted lexicon.[2][3] While Eskayan has no mother-tongue speakers, it is taught by volunteers in at least three cultural schools in the southeast interior of the province.
Statue of Mariano Datahan, inscribed with Eskayan script
Eskayan has a number of idiosyncrasies that have attracted wide interest. One of its most immediately remarkable features is its unique writing system of over 1,000 syllabic characters, said to be modeled on parts of the human body,[4] and its non-Philippine lexicon.
The earliest attested document in Eskayan provisionally dates from 1908, and was on display at the Bohol Museum until September 2006.[citation needed]
^ abEskayan at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
^Torralba, Milan Ted D. (October 1991), The Morphology of the Eskaya Language (A term paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements in LNG 704 (Morphology & Syntax) The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas)
^Cite error: The named reference Kelly 2012a was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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