BOOKS
Surát Binisayâ : deciphering ancient Bisayan writing and language

Publisher: New Day Publishers,


Title Details
  • Surát Binisayâ :
Publishers
  • Quezon City :New Day Publishers,c2017
Descriptions
  • xix, 144 pages ;23 cm
Isbn
    9789711013608
Language
    In English.
Subjects
  • Bisayan languages -- Writing.
  • Visayan language
  • Visayan writing
Material Type
  • BK
  • Book
Keyword
  • Visayan language
  • Visayan writing
Location MAIN
Item Call Number PL 5622 B67 2017
Status Available
Barcode 18402
Library Of Congress Control Number
International Standard Book Number
  • International Standard Book Number - 9789711013608
Authentication Code
  • Authentication code - pcc
Geographic Area Code
  • Geographic area code - a-ph---
Library Of Congress Call Number
  • Classification number - PL 5622
  • Item number - B68 2017
Main Entry
  • Personal name - Borrinaga, Rolando O.,
  • Relator term - author.
Title Statement
  • Title - Surát Binisayâ :
  • Remainder of title - deciphering ancient Bisayan writing and language /
  • Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Rolando O. Borrinaga.
Varying Form Of Title
  • Title proper/short title - Surat Binisaya
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint)
  • Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Quezon City :
  • Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - New Day Publishers,
  • Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2017
Physical Description
  • Extent - xix, 144 pages ;
  • Dimensions - 23 cm
Content Type
  • Content type term - text
Media Type
  • Media type term - unmediated
Carrier Type
  • Carrier type term - volume
Bibliography, Etc. Note
  • Bibliography, etc - Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-138) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
  • Formatted contents note - The 1984 Scott-Kobak correspondence : a sharing that reconstructed the sixteenth-century Bisayan society and culture -- The Calatagan pot : a national treasure with Bisayan inscription -- Romancing the Monreal stones : transcriptions, decipherments, translations, and some notes -- The Intramuros pot shard : Roman script, not baybayin -- The Limasawa pot : a Bakalag (human sacrifice) ritual artifact -- Father Alcina's Bisayan vocabulary (1668)
Summary, Etc.
  • Summary, etc. - "This book provides a representative set of fundamental Bisayan vocabulary before many of its words or their meanings were permanently altered, garbled, forgotten, or replaced by adopted or new jargon with the impact of Western colonialism and the intrusion of dominant external languages."
Language Note
  • Language note - In English.
Subject Topical Term
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Bisayan languages
  • General subdivision - Writing.
Index Termuncontrolled
  • Uncontrolled term - Visayan language
  • Uncontrolled term - Visayan writing