Dupaningan Agta Explained

Dupaningan Agta
Also Known As:Eastern Cagayan Agta
States:Philippines
Region:northern Luzon
Ethnicity:Aeta
Speakers:1,400
Date:2008
Ref:[1]
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:Philippine
Fam4:Northern Luzon
Fam5:Northeastern Luzon[2]
Iso3:duo
Glotto:dupa1235
Glottorefname:Dupaninan Agta
Dia1:Yaga
Map:Dupangingan_Agta_language_map.png
Mapcaption:Area where Dupaningan Agta is spoken according to Ethnologue
Dia2:Tanglagan
Dia3:Santa Ana-Gonzaga
Dia4:Barongagunay
Dia5:Palaui Island
Dia6:Valley Cove
Dia7:Bolos Point
Dia8:Peñablanca
Dia9:Roso (Southeast Cagayan)
Dia10:Santa Margarita

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.[3]

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. [5]

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Velar Glottal
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.

Vowels

Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e o
Low a
/a, e/ have lax allophones of [ə, ɛ].

External links

Notes and References

  1. Robinson . Laura C. . Dupaningan Agta: Grammar, vocabulary, and texts . 2008 . University of Hawaii at Manoa . 10125/20681 .
  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.
  3. 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.
  4. Reid . Lawrence A. . 1994 . Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages . Oceanic Linguistics . 33 . 1 . 37–72 . 10.2307/3623000 . 0029-8115 . 3623000. 10125/32986 . free .
  5. Web site: Ethnologue .