Remontado Agta language

Remontado Dumagat
Sinauna, Remontado Agta
Tagarug
Native to Philippines
Region Tanay and Montalban in Rizal, Antipolo City, and General Nakar, Quezon
Native speakers
 2,500 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 agv
Glottolog remo1247[2]
Area where Sinauna language is spoken

Remontado Agta, also known as Sinauna, Kabalat, Remontado Dumagat, and Hatang Kayey, is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Tanay, Rizal, General Nakar, Quezon (including in Paimahuan, Limoutan[3]), Rodriguez, Rizal and Antipolo City, in the Philippines. It is one of the Aeta languages.

The Remontado Dumagat were traditionally found in the mountains around the boundary between Sampaloc district in Tanay, Rizal, and General Nakar, Quezon (Lobel 2013:72-73).[4]

Classification

Reid (2010)[5] classifies Sinauna as a Central Luzon language.

References

  1. ↑ Remontado Dumagat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Remontado Agta". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Reid, Lawrence A. 1994. "Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages." In Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jun. 1994), pp. 37-72.
  4. ↑ Lobel, J. W. (2013). Philippine and North Bornean languages: Issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction. PhD diss., University of Hawai‘i.
  5. ↑ Reid, Lawrence A. 2010. Historical linguistics and Philippine hunter-gatherers. Loren Billings & Nelleke Goudswaard (eds.), Piakandatu ami Dr. Howard P. McKaughan, 234–260. Manila: Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL Philippines.
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