Dupaningan Agta (Dupaninan Agta), or Eastern Cagayan Agta, is a language spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer
Negrito
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people of
Cagayan
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and
Isabela provinces in northern
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* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
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* hil, Republ ...
. 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.
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Palaui Island
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Geography
Pal ...
- 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,
Baggao
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* Kattot
* Bolos a Ballek (Bolos Point) - village where the Dupaningan Agta language is most widely used
* Bolos a Dakal (Bolos,
Maconacon, Isabela
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)
* Santa Clara,
Gonzaga, Cagayan
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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
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PARADISEC
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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
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* Tagalog language, a language spoken in the Philippines
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** Batangas Tagalog, a dialect of the language
* Tagalog script, the writing system historically used for Tagal ...
.
*, slightly revised from Robinson'
2008 thesis
{{Languages of the Philippines
Aeta languages
Northeastern Luzon languages
Endangered Austronesian languages
Languages of Cagayan
Languages of Isabela (province)