Free Download Piers Kelly, "The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines "
English | ISBN: 0197509924 | 2021 | 328 pages | EPUB, PDF | 33 MB + 31 MB
The Last Language on Earth is an ethnographic history of the disputed Eskayan language, spoken today by an isolated upland community living on the island of Bohol in the southern Philippines. After Eskaya people were first ‘discovered’ in 1980, visitors described the group as a lost tribe preserving a unique language and writing system. Others argued that the Eskaya were merely members of a utopian rural cult who had invented their own language and script. Rather than adjudicating outsider polemics, this book engages directly with the language itself as well as the direct perspectives of those who use it today.