Popo's Testimony

Here are some words on UGSAD KANG KINARAY-A from Atty. Raphael "Popo" Lotilla, former Secretary of the Department of Energy, and an Antiqueño:

"Ang mga ginsulat ni Alex sangka buhi nga pagturuk kag paghangup kang atun kahimtangan sa kalibutan kadya nga mga inadlaw. These writings also attest that our language Kinaray-a remains highly evolved as a living medium for various forms of social discourse, intellectual and otherwise. Hence, its potential as a language for the fullest development of our people remains limitless."

About Ugsad kang Kinaray-a

"Hindi lang intelektwalisasyon ng wikang Kinaray-a ang layunin ng Ugsad kang Kinaray-a, ito higit sa lahat, ay isang paghawan ng landas para sa akademisasyon --- ang pagdala sa Kinaray-a mula sa labas (periphery) papunta sa loob (center) ng akademikong diskurso."

Ugsad kang Kinaray-a aims not only to intellectualize the Kinaray-a language, but more importantly, it is clearing the way towards academization -- to bring Kinaray-a from the periphery to the center of academic discourse.

Prof. John Barrios, coordinator
Sentro ng Wikang Filipino
University of the Philippines Visayas
Iloilo City

The latest from Hiraya

UGSAD KANG KINARAY-A, 16x128x1.25cm, softbound, 138 pp.
ISBN 978-971-93619-2-3

Hiraya Media Arts announces its third publication, Alex C. Delos Santos' UGSAD KANG KINARAY-A (2007). The book is the second of the Kinaray-a for the Karay-a series, a project that aims to produce reading materials and learning resource for the Karay-a people. It is a revised (expanded and improved) version in Kinaray-a of the English THE RISE OF KINARAY-A published in 2003. The author notes that for the Karay-a to achieve their emancipation from colonial mentality, they must seek and produce knowledge in their native tongue. The book shall be off the press in September 2008, and will be available online from www.bookoto.com.

Hiraya Media Arts has published AGI, AGI MAY PUTAY SA DAHI (2006), a collection of gay stories in Kinaray-a by Alex C. Delos Santos, and OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS (2007), essays about Filipino workers in the Middle East by Freda Editha O. Contreras. Both books are also available from www.bookoto.com.