Atta language

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Atta
Native toPhilippines
RegionLuzon
EthnicityAeta
Native speakers
2,000 (1998–2000)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
azt – Faire Atta
att – Pamplona Atta
atp – Pudtol Atta
dyg – Villa Viciosa Agta† (?)
Glottologatta1244
ELPFaire Atta

Atta is an Austronesian dialect cluster spoken by the Aeta (Agta) Negritos of the northern Philippines.

Varieties[]

There are three varieties according to Ethnologue.

  • Faire Atta (Southern Atta): spoken near Faire, Rizal, Cagayan
  • Pamplona Atta (Northern Cagayan Negrito): spoken in Pamplona, Cagayan; similar to northern Ibanag
  • Pudtol Atta: spoken in Pudtol, Apayao, and the Abulog river area south of Pamplona

Villa Viciosa Atta, supposed once spoken in Villaviciosa, Abra, is presumed to be related, but is unattested.[2]

Reid (1994) also reports the following locations for Southern Cagayan Agta.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Faire Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Pamplona Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Pudtol Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Villa Viciosa Agta† (?) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Villa Viciosa Atta". 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.


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