Eskayan is the

constructed script A constructed script is a new writing system specifically created by an individual or group, rather than having evolved as part of a language or culture like a natural script. Some are designed for use with constructed languages, although several ...

of the auxiliary

Eskayan language 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. While Eskayan has no mother-tongue speakers ...

of the island of

Bohol Bohol (), officially the Province of Bohol ( ceb, Lalawigan sa Bohol; tl, Lalawigan ng Bohol), is an island province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, consisting of the island itself and 75 minor surrounding islands. It ...

in the

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. Like Yugtun and

Fox script Fox (known by a variety of different names, including Mesquakie (Meskwaki), Mesquakie-Sauk, Mesquakie-Sauk-Kickapoo, Sauk-Fox, and Sac and Fox) is an Algonquian language, spoken by a thousand Meskwaki, Sauk, and Kickapoo in various locations i ...

, it is based on cursive

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. The script was developed approximately 1920–1937. "Although the script is used for representing Visayan (Cebuano)—a widely used language of the southern Philippines—its privileged role is in the written reproduction of a constructed utopian language, referred to as Eskayan or Bisayan Declarado... the Eskayan language and its script are used by approximately 550 people for restricted purposes in the southeast of the island of Bohol."Kelly, Piers. 2015. Introducing the Eskaya Writing System: A Complex Messianic Script from the Southern Philippines. ''Australian Journal of Linguistics'' Volume 36, Issue 1: 131-163. Eskayan has letters for V, CV, VC, and CCV syllables (where CCV is either CrV or ClV). For CVC, the final consonant is written with a subscript character. A basic subset of the script, the 46-character ''abidiha'', is mixed alphabetic/syllabic; the first 25 letters are alphabetic or function as either a consonant or a syllable ending in /i/ (the Spanish name of the letter). The full syllabary, or ''simplit'', comprises about 1,065 characters, the precise number depending on the text, with some rendering syllables which do not actually occur in the language.Kelly, Piers. 2012. "Your word against mine: How a rebel language and script of the Philippines was created, suppressed, recovered and contested." ''The Australian Journal of Anthropology'' 23 (3):357-3

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References

Relevant literature

*Sheeryn T, Bojos, Pacaña Niña Mea S, and Ramos Charmen D. 2018. "Demystifying the Magic of Eskaya Writing System in Duero, Bohol, Philippines." ''Asia Pacific Journal of Multidiclipinary Research'' 4.1:60-71.

External links

Eskayan script at Omniglot:
132 syllables, plus digits

The ''abidiha'', numerals, and punctuation {{list of writing systems Auxiliary and educational artificial scripts