page_title: Suyat
section_title: Eskayan
hierarchical_section_title: Suyat / Modern suyats / Eskayan
caption_attribution_description: Eskaya script
context_page_description: Suyat is the modern collective name of the indigenous scripts of various ethno-linguistic groups in the Philippines prior to Spanish colonization in the 16th century up to the independence era in the 21st century. The scripts are highly varied; nonetheless, the term was suggested and used by cultural organizations in the Philippines to denote a unified neutral terminology for Philippine indigenous scripts.
context_section_description: Eskayan script is the constructed script of the auxiliary Eskayan language of the island of Bohol in the Philippines. Like Yugtun and Fox script, it is based on cursive Latin. The script was developed approximately 1920–1937. "Although the script is used for representing Visayan (Cebuano)—a widely used language of the southern Philippines—its privileged role is in the written reproduction of a constructed utopian language, referred to as Eskayan or Bisayan Declarado...  the Eskayan language and its script are used by approximately 550 people for restricted purposes in the southeast of the island of Bohol."
caption: The Eskayan script