Dupaningan Agta

Dupaningan Agta (Dupaninan Agta), or Eastern Cagayan Agta, is an Austronesian 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.

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, Baggao
• Kattot
• Bolos a Ballek (Bolos Point) - village where the Dupaningan Agta language is most widely used
• Bolos a Dakal (Bolos, Maconacon, Isabela)
• Santa Clara, Gonzaga, Cagayan

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 [ə, ɛ].

References

External links

• PARADISEC has an open access 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's 2008 thesis