Ata language (Negros) should not be confused with Ata Manobo language.
Ata | |
States: | Philippines |
Region: | Negros Island |
Extinct: | (3–4 elderly speakers reported in 2013) |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
Fam4: | Central Philippine |
Fam5: | (unclassified) |
Iso3: | atm |
Glotto: | ataa1240 |
Glottorefname: | Ata |
Ata is a nearly extinct Philippine Negrito language spoken in Negros Island in the Visayas region of the Philippines.
As of 2013, Ata was reportedly spoken by no more than three or four elderly individuals in northern Negros Island, Philippines, although two of those died in 2021.