Smalley’s Maximums and the Mindoro Response
Channel: ICLDC YT
Date: 2021-05-04

Community members and elders of Hanunuo and Buhid (Mindoro, Philippines) developed an orthography through a participatory process facilitated by a linguist. Various sociocultural factors and considerations impacted the communities' choices and highlight the need for localization and contextualization of fieldwork endeavors instead of imposing field processes and workflows that homogenize community members and idealize community conditions.