lang_description: "An auxiliary language with grammatical elements from Boholano-Visayan (a dialect of Visayan aka Cebuano) and lexical items from Visayan varieties, Spanish and English. Used in restricted domains in five villages of southeast Bohol in the southern Philippines. Believed to have been created in the 1920s or 1930s. ",
classification: "Austronesian; Malayo-Polynesian; Greater Central Philippine; Bisayan",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
],
language: {
code_id:10498,
featured: 0,
cached_documentation_score:-1,
google_group_url: "",
simplified_level: null,
coordinates: "9°48'20.52"N, 124°24'13.92"E",
updated_at: "2015-08-18 08:32:09",
speaker_attitude: "Speakers feel proud of the language but believe that it is stigmatised by outsiders who regard it as 'fake'. Eskaya people talk about their language having been created by the ancestor Pinay. Some speakers regard Pinay as a pre-contact ancestor while others place him in the twentieth century. ",
government_support: "",
institutional_support: "",
_other_languages_used: null,
domains_of_use: "Eskayan is used for teaching in volunteer-run schools, limited teaching in one goverment school, for songs, prayers and the written reproduction of traditional literature. It is not used as a language of day-to-day communication. ",
speakers_worldwide: "550",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
speakers_worldwide_year: null,
bibliography_of_vitality: "",
bibliography_of_context: "",
bibliography_of_locations: "",
user_submission: "I believe I submitted this before to ELcat, but not sure what become of it. Eskayan now has an ISO code. Does this help?",