Eskayan

Eskayan is a constructed language, spoken in Philippines. Wikidata counts about 550 speakers (2013). Wikidata describes it as “artificial auxiliary language of the Eskaya clan of Bohol”.

9 · Dormant550

Wikidata record Glottolog

At a glance

ISO 639-3: esy
Glottocode: eska1234
Family: unclassified
EGIDS: 9 Dormant
Wikipedia: 9 language editions

—first-language speakers

—second-language speakers

1countries

1scripts

—levels in the tree

9EGIDS level

Facts

Name	Eskayan
Also called	Eskayan language, Bisaya, Iniskaya, Eskayano, Bisayan Declarado
All speakers	550 (2013)
Written in	Eskayan
Kind	constructed language

Vitality

EGIDS 9 Dormant9

Dormant or extinct. No fluent first-language speakers remain — EGIDS 9 and 10.

Other languages at this level

where it is spoken

Map and countries

A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Map of the area where Eskayan is spoken — Map: Christopher Sundita at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Philippines154 languages in the index

Also spoken in Philippines

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