| Eskayan script | |
|---|---|
| Script type | syllabary |
| Creator | Mariano Datahan Attributed to Pinay, ancestor of theEskaya clan |
Period | early 1900s to present |
| Direction | Left-to-right  |
| Languages | Eskayan |
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Eskayan is theconstructed script of the auxiliaryEskayan language of the island ofBohol in thePhilippines. LikeYugtun andFox script, it is based on cursiveLatin. 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."[1]
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-characterabidiha, 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, orsimplit, comprises about 1,065 characters, the precise number depending on the text, with some rendering syllables which do not actually occur in the language.[2]