Manide language

Manide, AKA Camarines Norte Agta, is a divergent Philippine language spoken by a Philippine Negrito people of Camarines Norte Province in southern Luzon Island, Philippines. The municipalities of Labo, Paracale, and Jose Panganiban have the most speakers.

Manide is closely related to Agta (Inagta) of Alabat and Lopez, Quezon Province (Lobel 2013:66-67). The Agta of Alabat Island were originally descended from migrants from Lopez (Lobel 2010). Their language, Inagta Alabat, is moribund. These languages do not appear to be closely related to any other Philippine languages, and do not subgroup in the Central Philippine or even Greater Central Philippine branches (Lobel 2013:275).

Distribution

Lobel (2010) reports Manide to be spoken by a total of about 4,000 people in the following municipalities.

• Camarines Norte
  • Basud - 2 communities, 175 speakers
  • Labo - 9 communities, 1,542 speakers
  • Jose Panganiban - 3 communities, 568 speakers
  • Paracale - 4 communities, 581 speakers
  • Santa Elena - 1 community, 110 speakers
  • Capalonga - 2 communities, 245 speakers
  • San Lorenzo Ruiz - 1 community, 45 speakers
• Quezon
  • Calauag - 1 community
  • Lopez - 1 community
• Camarines Sur
  • Ragay - 1 community, 200 speakers
  • Lupi - 1 community, 197 speakers

References

• Lobel, Jason William. 2010. "Manide: An Undescribed Philippine Language". Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 49, no. 2.
• Lobel, Jason William. 2013. Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction. Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa.