Dicamay Agta language

Dicamay Agta
Dicamay Agta
Dicamay Dumagat
Native to	Philippines
Region	Luzon
Ethnicity	Aeta
Extinct	1960s
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Luzon Dicamay Agta; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	duy
Linguist List	duy.html
Glottolog	dica1235

Last updated December 17, 2025

Dicamay Agta is an extinct Aeta language of the northern Philippines.^[2] The Dicamay Agta lived on the Dicamay River, on the western side of the Sierra Madre near Jones, Isabela. The Dicamay Agta were killed by Ilocano homesteaders sometime between 1957 and 1974 (Lobel 2013:98).^[3]

Richard Roe collected a Dicamay word list of 291 words in 1957.

References

↑ Dicamay Agta at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dicamay Agta". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Lobel, Jason William (May 2013). Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction (Thesis). University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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[e25-1] Dicamay Agta at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

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

[3] Lobel, Jason William (May 2013). Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction (Thesis). University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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