Dupaningan Agta
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. Its Yaga dialect is only partially intelligible.[2]
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, Isabela)
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 | j | | |
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
- ↑ Robinson, Laura C. 2011. Dupaningan Agta: grammar, vocabularly and texts. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dupaninan Agta". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Robinson, Laura C. (2011). Dupaningan Agta: grammar, vocabulary, and texts (Pacific Linguistics PL635). Canberra, A.C.T.: Pacific Linguistics, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. ISBN 9780858836464.
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