Dupaningan Agta

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Dupaningan Agta
Eastern Cagayan Agta
Native to Philippines
Region northern Luzon
Ethnicity Aeta
Native speakers
1,400 (2008)[1]
Dialects
Yaga
Language codes
ISO 639-3 duo
Glottolog dupa1235[3]
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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. 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
  • Barongagunay, Santa Clara, Santa Ana][5]
  • Valley Cove, Baggao[5]
  • Kattot
  • Bolos a Ballek (Bolos Point) - village where the Dupaningan Agta language is most widely used
  • Bolos a Dakal (Bolos, Maconacon, Isabela)
  • Santa Clara, Gonzaga, Cagayan[5]

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 and Notes

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References

  1. Robinson, Laura C. 2011. Dupaningan Agta: grammar, vocabularly and texts. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  2. 2.0 2.1 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.
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  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 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.

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