Inagta Partido language explained

Inagta Partido
Nativename:Isarog Agta
States:Philippines
Ethnicity:Agta
Speakers:~12 (2018) or 1,000 (1984)
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:Philippine
Fam4:Central Philippine
Fam5:Bikol languages
Fam6:Coastal Bikol
Iso3:agk
Glotto:isar1235
Glottorefname:Isarog Agta

Inagta Partido (Isarog Agta) or alternatively Katubung is a nearly extinct Bikol language spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer Agta (Negrito) people of the Philippines. It is found on Mount Isarog east of Naga City particularly in the town of Ocampo where the most recent survey of the language was conducted.

According to Lobel (2013), there are no speakers of Inagta Partido under 60. It is a moribund language. The Ethnologue cites a report from 2000 that there were then only five speakers from an ethnic population of about 1,000.[1]

Inagta Partido has borrowed heavily from Bikol languages such as Bikol Naga and Bikol Partido, but has a non-Bikol substratum.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Agta, Katubung . 2022-04-19 . Ethnologue . en.