LNU - LAYAG Gender and Development

The Waray word ‘layag’ comes from the Proto-Austronesian (PAN) root ‘layaR’, which means ‘sail’ (Blust & Trussel, 2020). Layag is both a noun and a verb (V).

In other PAN languages, it means ‘banner, or flag’. The PAN territory expands from Indonesian archipelago; all of the Philippines, Madagascar, and the island groups of the Central and South Pacific. This expansion was made possible by the ‘layag’. The LAYAG GAD Office envisions a route or, a tool in the empowerment of boundaries of identities by making a space of liberating consciousness of gender.