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.http://www.ethnologue.com/language/duo Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.), 2013. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
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 Labial Alveolar Velar Glottal Stop p b t d k g (ʔ) Nasal m n ŋ Trill/Tap r~ɾ Lateral l Fricative s h Glide w j Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right is voiced.
Vowels Front Central Back High i u Mid e o Low a /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