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100	1		_aKelly, Piers, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe last language on earth : _blinguistic utopianism in the Philippines / _cPiers Kelly.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bOxford University Press, _c[2022]
300			_axxxi, 291 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aOxford studies anthropology language series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aIntroduction Part I: Locating the Eskaya. Language, literacy, and revolt in the southern Philippines Contact and controversy Part II: Language, letters, literature. How Eskayan is used today The writing system Words and their origins Eskaya literature and traditional historiography Part III: Insurrection and Resurrection. From Pinay to Mariano Datahan (and back again) Eskayan revealed: a scenario Conclusion: The first language and the last word
520			_a"The Eskayan language of Bohol in the southern Philippines has been an object of controversy ever since it came to light in the early 1980s. Written in an unusual script Eskayan bears no obvious similarity to any known language of the Philippines, a fact that has prompted speculation that it was either displaced from afar, fossilized from the deep past, or invented as an elaborate hoax. This book investigates the history of Eskayan through a systematic review of its writing system, grammar and lexicon, and carefully evaluates written and oral narratives provided by its contemporary speakers. The linguistic analysis largely supports the traditional view that Eskayan was the deliberate creation of a legendary ancestor by the name of Pinay. The study traces the identity of Pinay through the turbulent history of early 20th-century Bohol when the island suffered a series of catastrophes at the hands of the United States occupation. It was at this time that the ancestor Pinay was channelled by Mariano Datahan, a multilingual prophet who foretold that English and other languages would be abandoned and that Eskayan would one day be spoken by everyone in the world. To make sense of this situation, the book draws on theorizations of postcolonial resistance, language ideology, mimesis, and the utopian political dynamics of highland societies. In so doing, it offers a linguistic and ethnographic history of Eskayan and of the ideologies and historical circumstances that motivated its creation"-- _cProvided by publisher.
521			_aCoED _bBachelor of Secondary Education major in Social Studies
546			_aIn English
650		0	_aEskayan language.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aKelly, Piers _tLast language on Earth _dNew York : Oxford University Press, 2021 _z9780197509951 _w(DLC) 2021027803
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