Inagta Alabat (Alabat Island Agta) is a Philippine Negrito language spoken in central Alabat Island, Philippines. Its speakers began arriving on the island in the 1970s but originated from Villa Espina in Lopez, with earlier settlements in Gumaca and perhaps other towns. (Lobel, Alpay, Barreno and Barreno 2020) Predating the Agta on Alabat Island were communities of individuals self-identifying as "dumagat" but who now only speak Tagalog as a native language. Less than a dozen individuals can still speak the Inagta Alabat language whether on Alabat Island, where it is being lost in favor of Tagalog, or in Lopez, where it is being replaced by the language of the Manide who have migrated to the area in large numbers and intermarried with the Agta, and also replaced by Tagalog. Those Agta who can still speak the Inagta language in Lopez speak the same language as the Agta who have migrated to Alabat over the past 50 years. Other Agta in Lopez either speak only Manide, or a mixture of Manide and Inagta Alabat-Lopez.
| Inagta Alabat | |
|---|---|
| Alabat Island Agta | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Quezon |
| Ethnicity | spoken by 5–20% (2020)[1] |
Native speakers | 10 (2019)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dul |
| Glottolog | alab1246 |
| ELP | Inagta Alabat |
Classification
editInagta Alabat forms a subgroup with Manide.[2] The extinct Katabangan may have also been related.[3]
Lexicon
editSelected Inagta Lopenze words from Salipande (2022):[4]
| Gloss | Inagta Lopenze |
|---|---|
| afternoon | álem |
| pig | bébuy |
| sun, day | degéw |
| fruit | geʔén |
| lightning | keldét |
| to chew | ŋásŋas |
| butterfly | kalibaŋbáŋ |
| crocodile | beʔéye |
| moon | bílan |
| cloud | dagʔúm |
| evening, night | diyúm |
| rattan | uwáy |
| endonym | agtáʔ |
| to eat | káʔun |
| river | sáyug |
| breast | súsu |
| tree | káhew |
| house | beléy |
| give | awéy |
| fire | hapúy |
| navel | púsed |
| person | táwu |
| tooth | ŋépen |
| leg | sukáb |
| blind | bulég |
| to cry | íbil |
| blood | digíʔ |
| worm | bukbúk |
References
editCitations
edit- ^ a b Inagta Alabat language at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)
- ^ Lobel 2010.
- ^ Comments received for ISO 639-3 Change Request 2019-024 (PDF), SIL International ISO 639-3 Registration Authority, 2020
- ^ Salipande, Aldrin Ludovice. 2022. Phonology of Agta Lopenze. Presentation given at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 31), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, May 18–20, 2022.
Sources
edit- Lobel, Jason William (2010). "Manide: An Undescribed Philippine Language". Oceanic Linguistics. 49 (2): 478–510. JSTOR 40983976.
- Lobel, Jason William; Alpay, Amy Jugueta; Barreno, Rosie Susutin; Barreno, Emelinda Jugueta (2020). "Notes from the Field: Inagta Alabat: A Moribund Philippine Language, with Supporting Audio". Language Documentation & Conservation. 14: 1–57. hdl:10125/24912.
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