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Philippine Negrito languages

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
The following languages are grouped according to their geographic location, and not genetic classification. Lobel (2013) Lobel (2013) lists the following Black Filipino (i.e., Philippine Negrito) ethnolinguistic groups. ;Northern Luzon • Umiray DumagetRemontado/Hatang-KayiAlta, NorthernAlta, SouthernArtaCasiguran AgtaNagtipunan AgtaDinapigue AgtaCentral Cagayan AgtaPahanan Agta (distinct from Paranan, which is not spoken by a Negrito Filipino population) • Dupaningan AgtaAtta (3–4 languages) (Lobel (2010) lists the following Negrito languages that are spoken on the eastern coast of Luzon Island, listed from north to south.) • Dupaningan Agta (Northern Luzon branch) • Pahanan AgtaCasiguran AgtaUmiray DumagetRemontado/Hatang-KayiInagta AlabatManideInagta PartidoInagta Rinconada Furthermore, Robinson & Lobel (2013) argue that Dupaningan Agta, Pahanan Agta, Casiguran Agta, Nagtipunan Agta, Dinapigue Agta, and Paranan do not belong to the Northern Cordilleran branch, but rather a new branch that they call Northeastern Luzon, which they consider to be a primary branch of the Northern Luzon (Cordilleran) group. ;Zambales Mountains • Ayta Mag-indiAyta Mag-anchiAyta AbellenAyta AmbalaAyta Bataan ( Ayta Magbukun) ;Southern Luzon • Inagta RinconadaInagta PartidoManideInagta Alabat (and Inagta Lopez) ;Southern Philippines • Inata (possibly 2 dialects) • Inati (Inete) (2 dialects) • MamanwaBatak (5–8 dialects) • Iraya (Mangyan) • Ata/Tigwa/Matigsalug Manobo ;Extinct varieties • Mount Iraya Agta (a.k.a. East Lake Buhi Agta) • Dicamay Agta: spoken on the Dicamay River on the western side of the Sierra Madre near Jones, Isabela; reportedly exterminated by Ilokano homesteaders sometime between 1957 and 1974 • Villa Viciosa Agta Ethnologue adds the extinct and unclassified Katabaga of Catanauan, Quezon, southern Luzon. The language was originally listed by Garvan. 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 reports from a 2006 visit that the Katabangan speak only Tagalog. According to Lobel (2013), based on their location, if the Katabangan did in fact once have their own language, it may have been related to Inagta Alabat-Lopez (see Inagta Alabat language) and Manide. Louward Allen Zubiri reports that there are 670 individuals in the Katabangan community, and that there are also families living in Mulanay, Gumaca, Lopez, and Alabat. He also reports on a handful of vocabulary items remembered by the Katabangan which offer evidence for a close relationship of their now-lost language with Manide and Inagta Alabat. Reid (1994) Reid (1994) lists the following Negrito languages. • North Agta • Northern CagayanCentral CagayanEastern CagayanSouthern CagayanSouthern IsabelaAuroraArta 12 remaining speakers in Aglipay, Quirino, in 1990 • Alta • North Alta – spoken in Aurora ProvinceSouth Alta (Kabuluen) – spoken in Nueva Ecija and Bulacan Provinces • Central Agta – spoken in eastern Luzon; includes Umiray • South Agta (> Manide)Camarines Norte (> Manide)Camarines Sur (> Inagta Rinconada, Inagta Partido)Sinauna (> Remontado/Hatang-Kayi) • Ayta – 6 different languages spoken in the Zambales Mountains according to Wimbish (1986): • AbelenAberlenMagganchiMaggindiAmbalaMagbeken Ayta ;Other Philippine Negrito languages: • Ata Manobo – spoken in Mansalinao, DavaoBatak – spoken in PalawanInatiMamanwa – spoken in Agusan Reid (2013) Reid (2013) considers the Philippine Negrito languages (highlighted in bold) to have split in the following fashion. Reid (2013) considers each Negrito language or group to be a first-order split in its respective branch, with Inati and ManideAlabat as first-order subgroups of Malayo-Polynesian. • Malayo-Polynesian (MP) • diverse MP branches outside of the PhilippinesBashiic, Kalamianic and other MP branches on the Philippines not comprising Negrito languagesManideAlabatInatiNorthern Luzon languagesArtaUmiray Dumaget (?) • Northeastern Luzon languagesCagayan Valley languagesIlokanoMeso-Cordilleran languagesNorth AltaSouth Alta • South Cordilleran languages • Central Cordilleran languages • Central Luzon languagesRemontado Dumagat (Sinauna Tagalog) • KapampanganSambalic languagesAyta languages • Sambal languages • Central Philippine languagesMamanwa • Tagalog • Bikol • Bisayan • Mansaka ==Unique vocabulary==
Unique vocabulary
Lobel (2010) lists the following percentage of unique vocabulary items out of 1,000 compared words in these Negrito languages, which Reid (1994) suggests are lexical remnants from the pre-Austronesian substrata that these Negrito languages may have. Manide and Umiray Dumaget have the most unique vocabulary items. • Manide: 28.5% • Umiray Dumaget: 23% • Inate: 9% • Mamanwa: 7% • Batak: 1% • Inagta Rinconada; Inagta Partido: 2% Other Southeast Asian languages with high proportions of unique vocabulary of possible isolate origin include the Enggano language of Indonesia and the Kenaboi language of Malaysia. Reid (1994) Reid (1994) lists the following reconstructed forms as possible non-Austronesian lexical elements in Philippine Negrito languages. Reid considers the endonym *ʔa(R)ta, meaning 'person', to have been a native Negrito word that was later borrowed into Austronesian with the meaning 'dark-skinned person'. ==References==
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