Mount Iraya Agta is a

Bikol language The Bikol languages or Bicolano languages are a group of Central Philippine languages spoken mostly in the Bicol Peninsula in the southeastern part of Luzon, the neighboring island-province of Catanduanes, and the island of Burias in Masbate ...

spoken by a semi-nomadic

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Agta Aeta (Ayta ), Agta and Dumagat, are collective terms for several indigenous peoples who live in various parts of Luzon islands in the Philippines. They are included in the wider Negrito grouping of the Philippines and the rest of Southeast A ...

(Negrito) people of the

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, east of

Lake Buhi Lake Buhi is a lake found in Buhi, Camarines Sur in the Philippines. It has an area of and has an average depth of . The lake lies in the valley formed by two ancient volcanoes, Mount Iriga (also known as ''Mount Asog'') and Mount Malinao. It ...

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. It is mutually intelligible with Mount Iriga Agta on the other side of the lake. As of 2013, the Mount Iraya Agta language may be extinct. The Mount Iraya Agta live on the eastern side of

Camarines Sur Camarines Sur (; ), officially the Province of Camarines Sur (Central Bikol language, Bikol: ''Probinsya kan Habagatan na Camarines''; ), is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Bicol Region on Luzon. Its ca ...

, near the border with the town of

Tiwi, Albay Tiwi, officially the Municipality of Tiwi (; ), is a municipality in the Province of Albay, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 56,444 people. Etymology Friars called the place ''Tigbi'', which evolved into ''Tivi' ...

. Mount Iraya Agta had borrowed so heavily from Bikol that it was indistinguishable from neighboring non-Agta languages except for a very small amount of lexicon, based on evidence from a 1984 SIL wordlist. The Mount Iraya Agta people now speak Buhinon and Bikol Naga/Partido.

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* Aeta languages Bikol languages Languages of Camarines Sur Extinct languages of Asia {{CPhilippine-lang-stub