Mount Iriga Agta language explained

Inagta Rinconada
Also Known As:Mt. Iriga Agta, West Buhi Agta
States:Philippines
Region:Luzon
Speakers:1,500
Date:1979
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:Philippine
Fam4:Central Philippine
Fam5:Bikol languages
Fam6:Inland Bikol
Iso3:agz
Glotto:mtir1235
Glottorefname:Mt. Iriga Agta

Inagta Rinconada (Mount Iriga Agta) is a Bikol language spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer Agta (Negrito) people of the Philippines. It is spoken to the east of Iriga City up to the shores of Lake Buhi. The language is largely intelligible with Mount Iraya Agta on the other side of the lake.

The Rinconada Agta live primarily in forests near rural barangays of Buhi, Iriga (including a settlement in the Ilian area), and Baao in Camarines Sur (Lobel 2013:68).[1]

Locations

Reid (1994)[2] also reports a closely related variety called Rugnot spoken in the area of Lake Buhi, Camarines Sur. Inagta locations listed by Reid (1994) are as follows.

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Lobel . Jason William . Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction . 2013 . Ph.D. dissertation . University of Hawaii at Manoa . Manoa.
  2. Reid . Lawrence A. . 1994 . Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages . Oceanic Linguistics . en . 33 . 1 . 37–72 . 10.2307/3623000. 3623000 . 10125/32986 . free .