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A Voice From Many Rivers:
Central Subanen Oral and Written Literature


Written and recounted by Edgar Aleo and others
Translated and annotated by Felicia Brichoux

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The Central Subanen language belongs to the Southern Philippine subgroup of the Malayo-Polynesian family of Austronesian languages and is estimated to be spoken by between 120,000 and 150,000 people. Following in the vein of
A Voice From the Hills, thirty contributors to A Voice From Many Rivers present over 130 items employing story, personal history, essay, speeches, poetry and song to portray life along the rivers of the Zamboanga peninsula. Each text is given in Central Subanen and English, with annotations.

2002, xxviii, 417pp. ISBN: 971-780-011-1 (LSP Special Monograph Issue, Number 42)

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