Katabangan (

Catanauan Catanauan, officially the Municipality of Catanauan ( tgl, Bayan ng Catanauan), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 72,752 people. History The existence of Cat ...

"Ayta") is an extinct

Aeta language The Negrito peoples of the Philippines speak various Philippine languages. They have more in common with neighboring languages than with each other, and are listed here merely as an aid to identification. Classification The following languages are ...

that was spoken in the

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Quezon Province Quezon, officially the Province of Quezon ( tl, Lalawigan ng Quezon), is a province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region on Luzon. Kalilayan was the first known name of the province. It was later renamed Tayabas. In honor of the ...

, southern Luzon in the

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. It is misspelled ''Katabaga'' in '' Ethnologue''. The Katabangan have completely switched to

Tagalog Tagalog may refer to: Language * Tagalog language, a language spoken in the Philippines ** Old Tagalog, an archaic form of the language ** Batangas Tagalog, a dialect of the language * Tagalog script, the writing system historically used for Tagal ...

. ''Katabangan'' is also used by some people in the Bikol Region to refer to mixed-blood Agta. Zubiri believes it is likely related to

Agta The Aeta (Ayta ), Agta, or Dumagat, are collective terms for several Filipino indigenous peoples who live in various parts of the island of Luzon in the Philippines. They are considered to be part of the Negrito ethnic groups and share common ...

of the Lopez-

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area, and to the Manide of western and central

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History and status

The language was originally listed by Garvan (1963: 8).Garvan, John M. 1963. ''The Negritos of the Philippines''. Wiener Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte und Linguistik Band XIV. Vienna: Ferdinand Berger Horn. (Published posthumously from field notes taken by Garvan between 1903 and 1924.) ''Katabaga'' is in fact a misspelling of ''Katabangan'', the name that the people use to refer to themselves. Some people in the Bikol Region also use the term ''Katabangan'' to refer to mixed-blood Agta in the region. Lobel (2013: 92) reports from a 2006 visit that the Katabangan speak only Tagalog. According to Lobel (2013), if the Katabangan did in fact speak one of the Philippine Negrito languages before, it would have been related to Agta of the Lopez-

area (see

Inagta Alabat language Inagta Alabat (Alabat Island Agta) is a nearly dormant Aeta language spoken in central Alabat Island, Philippines. Inagta Lopez is a dialect reported to be spoken in Guinayangan Guinayangan, officially the Municipality of Guinayangan ( tgl, B ...

) or to Manide based on its present-day location. Louward Allen Zubiri reports that there are 670 individuals in the Katabangan community. The community was granted an ancestral domain title by the government of the Philippines in 2015. There are also families living in

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, Lopez, and Alabat.

Vocabulary

Zubiri compares a few Katabangan lexical items remembered by elders and notes clear similarities with Inagta Alabat and Manide.Zubiri, Louward Allen. 2019
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References

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