Central Cagayan Agta language

Central Cagayan Agta
Central Cagayan Agta
Cagayan Agta
Native to	Philippines
Region	Luzon
Ethnicity	Aeta
Native speakers	(780 cited 2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Luzon Cagayan Valley Gaddangic Central Cagayan Agta; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	agt
Glottolog	cent2084
ELP	Central Cagayan Agta

Last updated December 17, 2025

Central Cagayan Agta, also known as Labin Agta, is an Austronesian language ^[2] and Aeta language of northern Cagayan Province, Philippines. It is spoken by the Aeta Negritos in inland areas located to the east and northeast of Baggao (Ethnologue).

Locations

Reid (1994)^[3] reports the following locations for Central Cagayan Agta.

Gattaran, Cagayan (including Yaga and Tanglagan)
Sitio Mammit, San Mariano, Lal-Lo, Cagayan
Camonayan, Baggao, Cagayan

However, Ethnologue reports the locations for Central Cagayan Agta:^[4]

Cagayan Valley Region: Cagayan province inland area,
East and Northeast from Baggao.

References

↑ Central Cagayan Agta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Central Cagayan Agta". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ 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.
↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/agt (subscription required)

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[e18-1] Central Cagayan Agta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Central Cagayan Agta". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Reid1994-3] 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.

[4] ttps://www.ethnologue.com/language/agt (subscription required)

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