Philippine Negrito languages
The Negrito peoples of the Philippines speak various languages. They have more in common with neighboring languages than with each other, and are listed here merely as an aid to identification.
Classification
Lobel (2013)
Lobel (2013)[1] lists the following Black Filipino (i.e., Philippine Negrito) ethnolinguistic groups.
- Northern Luzon
- Umiray Dumaget
- Remontado Dumagat
- Alta, Northern
- Alta, Southern
- Arta
- Casiguran Agta
- Nagtipunan Agta
- Dinapigue Agta
- Central Cagayan Agta
- Pahanan (Agta)
- Dupaningan Agta
- Atta (3-4 languages)
(Lobel (2010)[2] lists the following Negrito languages that are spoken on the eastern coast of Luzon Island, listed from north to south.)
- Dupaningan Agta (Northern Luzon branch)
- Pahanan Agta
- Casiguran Agta
- Umiray Dumaget
- Remontado Dumagat
- Inagta Alabat
- Manide (unclassified)
- Inagta Partido
- Inagta Rinconada
Furthermore, Robinson & Lobel (2013)[3] argue that Dupaningan Agta, Pahanan Agta, Casiguran Agta, Nagtipunan Agta, Dinapigue Agta, and Paranan do not belong to the Northern Cordilleran branch, but rather a new branch that they call Northeastern Luzon, which they consider to be a primary branch of the Northern Luzon (Cordilleran) group.
- Zambales Mountains
- Ayta Mag-indi
- Ayta Mag-anchi
- Ayta Abellen
- Ayta Ambala
- Ayta Bataan (aka Ayta Magbukun)
- Southern Luzon
- Inagta Rinconada
- Inagta Partido
- Manide
- Inagta Alabat (and Inagta Lopez)
- Southern Philippines
- Inata (possibly 2 dialects)
- Inati (Inete) (2 dialects?)
- Mamanwa
- Batak (5-8 dialects)
- Iraya (Mangyan)
- Ata/Tigwa/Matigsalug Manobo
- Extinct varieties
- Mount Iraya Agta (AKA East Lake Buhi Agta)
- Inagta Alabat
- Dicamay Agta: spoken on the Dicamay River on the western side of the Sierra Madre near Jones, Isabela; reportedly exterminated by Ilokano homesteaders sometime between 1957 and 1974 (Headland 2003:7)
- Villa Viciosa Agta
Reid (1994)
Reid (1994) lists the following Negrito languages.[4]
- North Agta
- Arta - 12 remaining speakers in Aglipay, Quirino, in 1990
- Alta
- North Alta - spoken in Aurora Province
- South Alta (Kabuluen) - spoken in Nueva Ecija and Bulacan Provinces
- Central Agta - spoken in eastern Luzon; includes Umiray
- South Agta
- Sinauna
- Ayta - 6 different languages spoken in the Zambales Mountains according to Wimbel (1986):[5]
- Other Philippine Negrito languages
Ethnologue adds extinct and unclassified Katabaga of southern Luzon.
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Lobel, Jason William. 2010. Manide: An Undescribed Philippine Language. Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 49, no. 2.
- ↑ Robinson, Laura C. and Jason William Lobel (2013). "The Northeastern Luzon Subgroup of Philippine Languages." Oceanic Linguistics 52.1 (2013): 125-168.
- ↑ Reid, Lawrence A. 1994. "Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages." In Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jun. 1994), pp. 37-72.
- ↑ Wimbish, John. 1986. The languages of the Zambales mountains: a Philippine lexicostatistic study. In Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, vol. 30:133-142.
- Fay Wouk and Malcolm Ross (ed.), The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems. Australian National University, 2002.
- K. Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann, The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. Routledge, 2005.
- Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database, 2008.
- Reid, Lawrence A. (2013) "Who Are the Philippine Negritos? Evidence from Language." Human Biology: Vol. 85: Iss. 1, Article 15.
External links
- Comparative vocabularies of Philippine and other Austronesian languages
- Cognate sets for Austronesian languages
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