Dupaningan Agta

Austronesian language of the Philippines
Dupaningan Agta
Eastern Cagayan Agta
Native toPhilippines
Regionnorthern Luzon
EthnicityAeta
Native speakers
1,400 (2008)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Philippine
      • Northern Luzon
        • Northeastern Luzon[2]
          • Dupaningan Agta
Dialects
  • Yaga
  • Tanglagan
  • Santa Ana-Gonzaga
  • Barongagunay
  • Palaui Island
  • Valley Cove
  • Bolos Point
  • Peñablanca
  • Roso (Southeast Cagayan)
  • Santa Margarita
Language codes
ISO 639-3duo
Glottologdupa1235
ELPDupaninan Agta
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]

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]

  • Palaui Island - Speakers do not consider themselves to be Dupaningan, but the language is very similar to that of the other Dupaningans.
  • Nangaramuan, Santa Ana
  • Barongagunay, Santa Clara, Santa Ana[3]
  • Valley Cove, Baggao[3]
  • Kattot
  • Bolos a Ballek (Bolos Point) - village where the Dupaningan Agta language is most widely used
  • Bolos a Dakal (Bolos, Maconacon, Isabela)
  • Santa Clara, Gonzaga, Cagayan[3]

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

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].

References

  1. ^ a b Robinson, Laura C. (2008). Dupaningan Agta: Grammar, vocabulary, and texts (Thesis). University of Hawaii at Manoa. hdl:10125/20681.
  2. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c Reid, Lawrence A. (1994). "Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages" (PDF). Oceanic Linguistics. 33 (1): 37–72. doi:10.2307/3623000. hdl:10125/32986. ISSN 0029-8115. JSTOR 3623000.
  4. ^ "Ethnologue".(subscription required)


External links

  • PARADISEC has an open access collection of recordings in Dupaningan Agta. These recordings include elicitation sessions, wordlists, stories, and songs. Sessions also include Ilocano, the local contact language, and occasionally also Tagalog.
  • Robinson, Laura C. (2011). Dupaningan Agta: grammar, vocabulary, and texts. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 978-0-858-83646-4., slightly revised from Robinson's 2008 thesis
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