Dupaningan Agta | |
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Eastern Cagayan Agta | |
Native to | Philippines |
Region | northern Luzon |
Ethnicity | Aeta |
Native speakers | 1,400 (2008) [1] |
Austronesian
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | duo |
Glottolog | dupa1235 |
ELP | Dupaninan Agta |
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]
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. [1]
Ethnologue reports Yaga, Tanglagan, Santa Ana-Gonzaga, Barongagunay, Palaui Island, Camonayan, Valley Cove, Bolos Point, Peñablanca, Roso (Southeast Cagayan), Santa Margarita as dialects of Dupaningan Agta. [4]
Labial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |
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Stop | p b | t d | k g | (ʔ) |
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |
Trill/Tap | r~ɾ | |||
Lateral | l | |||
Fricative | s | h | ||
Glide | w | j |
Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right is voiced.
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Low | a |
/a, e/ have lax allophones of [ə, ɛ].
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