Dupaningan Agta (Dupaninan Agta), or Eastern Cagayan Agta, is a language spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer

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. Its Yaga dialect is only partially intelligible.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.

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. * 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 * Valley Cove,

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* Kattot * Bolos a Ballek (Bolos Point) - village where the Dupaningan Agta language is most widely used * Bolos a Dakal (Bolos,

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) * Santa Clara,

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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.

Phonology

Consonants

Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right is voiced.

Vowels

/a, e/ have lax allophones of �, ɛ

References

External links

PARADISEC The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel- ...

has an open acces
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. *, slightly revised from Robinson'
2008 thesis
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