Umiray Dumaget is an Aeta language spoken in southern Luzon Island, Philippines.
Location Umiray Dumaget is spoken along the Pacific coast of eastern Luzon, Philippines, from just south of Baler, Aurora, to the area of Infanta, Quezon, and on the northern coast of Polillo Island.Himes 2002:275–276 Himes (2002) reports little dialectal variation.
Reid (1994)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. reports the following locations for Umiray Dumaget (Central Agta). Umiray, General Nakar, Quezon Dibut, San Luis, Aurora Bunbun, Panukulan, Polillo, Quezon
The language is also spoken in Dingalan, Aurora, most especially in Umiray.
Phonology
Consonants +Umiray Dumaget consonantsLabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottalPlosivevoiceless()voicedNasalFricativeTrillLateralApproximant only appears in loanwords.
Vowels +Umiray Dumaget vowelsFrontBackCloseOpen
Classification Umiray Dumaget is difficult to classify. Himes (2002) posits a Greater Central Philippine connection.Himes, Ronald S. 2002. The relationship of Umiray Dumaget to other Philippine languages. Oceanic Linguistics 41(2):275–294. . However, Lobel (2013)Lobel, Jason William. 2013. Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction . Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa. believes that Umiray Dumaget may be a primary branch of the Philippine languages, or may be related to the Northeastern Luzon languages, Sambali-Ayta (Central Luzon), or Manide and Inagta Alabat. According to Lobel (2013), Umiray Dumaget does not subgroup in the Central Philippine or even Greater Central Philippine branches.
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