Northern Alta language

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Northern Alta
Edimala
Native toPhilippines
RegionLuzon
Native speakers
200 (2000)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3aqn
Glottolognort2875
ELPNorthern Alta
Northern Alta language map.png
Area where Northern Alta is spoken, according to Ethnologue

Northern Alta (also called Edimala) is a distinctive Aeta language of the mountains of northern Philippines. It is not close to Southern Alta or to other languages of Luzon.

Jason Lobel and Laura Robinson did fieldwork on Northern Alta in 2006 (Lobel 2013:87).

Geographical distribution[]

There are Northern Alta speakers known as Edimala who live in the Sierra Madre along the river valleys that flow out to the Baler plain in Aurora Province. The Northern Alta also reportedly live in Dibut, on the coast south of Baler municipality, and north of Dicapanisan. Reid (1991) collected Northern Alta data from a speaker of Malabida, who was visiting in Bayanihan, an Ilongot-speaking barangay north of Maria Aurora, Aurora at the edge of the Sierra Madre. Ethnologue also reports that Northern Alta is spoken in San Luis, Aurora.

Reid (1994)[2] lists the following locations for Northern Alta.

  • Baler, Aurora
  • Ditailin, Maria Aurora, Aurora
  • Malevida, Dianawan, Maria Aurora, Aurora
  • Diteki, San Luis, Aurora (listed in Ethnologue as Diteki River in the Bayanihan area)

García Laguía (2018) collected Northern Alta data in the barangays of Diteki, Dianed, and Decoliat.[3] García Laguía (2018) also reported that there were Alta people living in the communities of Malabida, Dimani (Barangay Villa), Dupinga, and Labi.

References[]

  1. ^ Northern Alta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Reid, Lawrence A. (1994). "Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages". 33 (1): 37–72. hdl:10125/32986. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ García Laguía, Alexandro-Xavier (2018). Documentation of Northern Alta: Grammar, Texts and Glossary (Ph.D. thesis). Universitat de Barcelona. hdl:10803/664081.

Further reading[]

  • Reid, Lawrence A. (1991). "The Alta Languages of the Philippines" (PDF). In Harlow, Ray (ed.). VICAL 2, Western Austronesian and Contact Languages. Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Linguistic Society of New Zealand. pp. 265–297.

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