Dupaningan Agta

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Dupaningan Agta
Eastern Cagayan Agta
Native to Philippines
Regionnorthern Luzon
Ethnicity Aeta
Native speakers
1,400 (2008) [1]
Dialects
  • Yaga
  • Tanglagan
  • Santa Ana-Gonzaga
  • Barongagunay
  • Palaui Island
  • Valley Cove
  • Bolos Point
  • Peñablanca
  • Roso (Southeast Cagayan)
  • Santa Margarita
Language codes
ISO 639-3 duo
Glottolog dupa1235
ELP Dupaninan Agta
Dupangingan Agta language map.png
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]

Contents

Geographic distribution and dialects

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]

Phonology

Consonants

LabialAlveolarVelarGlottal
Stopp bt dk g(ʔ)
Nasalmnŋ
Trill/Tapr~ɾ
Laterall
Fricativesh
Glidewj

Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right is voiced.

Vowels

FrontCentralBack
Highiu
Mideo
Lowa

/a, e/ have lax allophones of [ə, ɛ].

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References

  1. 1 2 Robinson, Laura C. (2008). Dupaningan Agta: Grammar, vocabulary, and texts (Thesis). University of Hawaii at Manoa. hdl:10125/20681.
  2. 1 2 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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