Dupaningan Agta language
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| Dupaningan Agta | |
|---|---|
| Eastern Cagayan Agta | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | northern Luzon |
| Ethnicity | Aeta |
Native speakers | 1,400 (2008)[1] |
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Austronesian
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| Dialects |
Yaga
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | duo |
 Area where Dupaningan Agta is spoken according to Ethnologue | |
Dupaningan Agta (Dupaninan Agta), or Eastern Cagayan Agta, is a language spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer Negrito people of Cagayan and Isabela provinces in northern Luzon, Philippines. Yaga dialect is only partially intelligible.[3]
Geographic distribution
Robinson (2008) reports Dupaningan Agta to be spoken by a total of about 1,400 people in about 35 scattered communities, each with 1-70 households.[4]
- Palaui Island - speakers do not consider themselves to be Dupaningan, but the language is very similar to that of the other Dupaningans.
- Nangaramuan, Santa Ana
- Kattot
- Bolos a Ballek (Bolos Point) - village where the Dupaningan Agta language is most widely used
- Bolos a Dakal (Bolos, Maconacon)
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p b | t d | k g | (ʔ) |
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |
| Trill/Tap | r | |||
| Lateral | l | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||
| Glide | w | y |
Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right is voiced.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a |
References and Notes
- ↑ Robinson, Laura C. 2011. Dupaningan Agta: grammar, vocabularly and texts. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- ↑ http://www.ethnologue.com/language/duo Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.), 2013. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
- ↑ http://www.ethnologue.com/language/duo Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.), 2013. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
- ↑ Robinson, Laura C. 2008. Dupaningan Agta: Grammar, Vocabulary, and Texts. Ph.D. dissertation. Honolulu: Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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