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Mount Iriga Agta language

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Inagta Rinconada
Mt. Iriga Agta, West Buhi Agta
Native toPhilippines
RegionLuzon
Native speakers
(1,500 cited 1979)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3agz
Glottologmtir1235

Inagta Rinconada(Mount Iriga Agta) is aBikollanguage spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gathererAgta(Negrito) people of thePhilippines.It is spoken to the east ofIriga Cityup to the shores ofLake Buhi.The language is largely intelligible withMount Iraya Agtaon the other side of the lake.

The Rinconada Agta live primarily in forests near rural barangays ofBuhi,Iriga(including a settlement in the Ilian area), andBaaoinCamarines Sur(Lobel 2013:68).[2]

Locations[edit]

Reid (1994)[3]also reports a closely related variety calledRugnotspoken in the area of Lake Buhi, Camarines Sur. Inagta locations listed by Reid (1994) are as follows.

  • Santa Niño, Hayagan, and Santa Cruz, Ipil, Buhi, Camarines Sur
  • San Augustine, Buhi, Camarines Sur; SIL
  • San Ramon, Lake Buhi, Camarines Sur; SIL

References[edit]

  1. ^Inagta RinconadaatEthnologue(18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
  2. ^Lobel, Jason William (2013).Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction(PDF)(Ph.D. dissertation thesis). Manoa: University of Hawaii at Manoa.
  3. ^Reid, Lawrence A. (1994). "Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages".Oceanic Linguistics.33(1): 37–72.doi:10.2307/3623000.hdl:10125/32986.JSTOR3623000.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Villegas, L. M. T. (2010). A Grammatical Sketch Of Iriga Agta