Surát Binisayâ : deciphering ancient Bisayan writing and language /
Borrinaga, Rolando O.,
Surát Binisayâ : deciphering ancient Bisayan writing and language / by Rolando O. Borrinaga. - xix, 144 pages 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-138) and index.
This book features the author's works at deciphering the ancient writing and language of the Bisayan-speaking people of the central Philippines on five artifacts discovered in diffeent places, four of which are now displayed at the Baybayin Gallery of the National Museum of Anthropology in Manila. He had also deciphered the archaic transcriptions of Bisayan words in some manuscripts of Fr.Francisco Alcina, a seventeenth-century Jesuit missionary in Samar and Leyte. The book provides a representative set of fundamental Bisayan vocabulary before many of its words or their meanings were permanently atlered, garbled, forgotten, or replaced by adopted or new jargon with the impact of Western colonialism and the intrusion of dominant external languages. --Back cover of the book.
9789711013608
2017357153
Bisayan languages
PL 5622 / .B67 2017
Surát Binisayâ : deciphering ancient Bisayan writing and language / by Rolando O. Borrinaga. - xix, 144 pages 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-138) and index.
This book features the author's works at deciphering the ancient writing and language of the Bisayan-speaking people of the central Philippines on five artifacts discovered in diffeent places, four of which are now displayed at the Baybayin Gallery of the National Museum of Anthropology in Manila. He had also deciphered the archaic transcriptions of Bisayan words in some manuscripts of Fr.Francisco Alcina, a seventeenth-century Jesuit missionary in Samar and Leyte. The book provides a representative set of fundamental Bisayan vocabulary before many of its words or their meanings were permanently atlered, garbled, forgotten, or replaced by adopted or new jargon with the impact of Western colonialism and the intrusion of dominant external languages. --Back cover of the book.
9789711013608
2017357153
Bisayan languages
PL 5622 / .B67 2017
