Ata language (Negros)

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Not to be confused with Ata Manobo language.
Ata
Native toPhilippines
RegionNegros Island
Extinct(3–4 elderly speakers reported in 2013)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3atm
Glottologataa1240
ELPAta

Ata is a nearly extinct Philippine Negrito language spoken in Negros Island in the Visayas region of the Philippines.

As of 2013, Ata was reportedly spoken by no more than three or fourelderly individuals around Mabinay and Bais City, Negros Island, Philippines.[1]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b Lobel (2013), p. 85

References[]

  • Lobel, Jason William (2013). Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawaii at Manoa.


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