Area where Dupaningan Agta is spoken according to Ethnologue
Dupaningan Agta (Dupaninan Agta), or Eastern Cagayan Agta, is a language spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer Negrito people of Cagayan and Isabela provinces in northern Luzon, Philippines. Its Yaga dialect is only partially intelligible.[2]
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.[1]
Palaui Island - Speakers do not consider themselves to be Dupaningan, but the language is very similar to that of the other Dupaningans.
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.[4]
Phonology
Consonants
Labial
Alveolar
Velar
Glottal
Stop
p b
t d
k g
(ʔ)
Nasal
m
n
ŋ
Trill/Tap
r~ɾ
Lateral
l
Fricative
s
h
Glide
w
j
Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right is voiced.
Vowels
Front
Central
Back
High
i
u
Mid
e
o
Low
a
/a, e/ have lax allophones of [ə, ɛ].
References
^ abRobinson, Laura C. (2008). Dupaningan Agta: Grammar, vocabulary, and texts (Thesis). University of Hawaii at Manoa. hdl:10125/20681.
^ abhttp://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.
Robinson, Laura C. (2011). Dupaningan Agta: grammar, vocabulary, and texts. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. ISBN978-0-858-83646-4., slightly revised from Robinson's 2008 thesis