Katabangan (
Catanauan "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
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that was spoken in the
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of
Quezon Province, southern Luzon in the
Philippines. It is misspelled ''Katabaga'' in ''
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The Katabangan have completely switched to
Tagalog. ''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-
Guinayangan
Guinayangan, officially the Municipality of Guinayangan ( tgl, Bayan ng Guinayangan), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 44,045 people.
Guinayangan came from ...
area, and to the
Manide of western and central
Camarines Norte.
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-
Guinayangan
Guinayangan, officially the Municipality of Guinayangan ( tgl, Bayan ng Guinayangan), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 44,045 people.
Guinayangan came from ...
area (see
Inagta Alabat language) 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
Mulanay
Mulanay, officially the Municipality of Mulanay ( tgl, Bayan ng Mulanay), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 55,576 people.
This place is situated on the Bon ...
,
Gumaca,
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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Aeta languages
Languages of Quezon