The Negrito peoples of the Philippines speak various Philippine languages . They have more in common with neighboring languages than with each other, and are listed here merely as an aid to identification.
7-398: Pahanan Agta , also called Palanan Agta , is an Aeta language of Palanan, Isabela northern Philippines. Lexically but not grammatically it is extremely close to Paranan , a non-Negrito language with a very similar name. Speaker groups of both languages were together isolated from other communities and remained in constant interaction. This article about Philippine languages is
14-602: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Aeta language The following languages are grouped according to their geographic location, and not genetic classification. Lobel (2013) lists the following Black Filipino (i.e., Philippine Negrito) ethnolinguistic groups. ( Lobel (2010) lists the following Negrito languages that are spoken on the eastern coast of Luzon Island, listed from north to south. ) Furthermore, Robinson & Lobel (2013) argue that Dupaningan Agta , Pahanan Agta , Casiguran Agta , Nagtipunan Agta , Dinapigue Agta , and Paranan do not belong to
21-552: The Bikol Region also use the term Katabangan to refer to mixed-blood Agta in the region. Lobel reports from a 2006 visit that the Katabangan speak only Tagalog. According to Lobel (2013), based on their location, if the Katabangan did in fact once have their own language, it may have been related to Inagta Alabat-Lopez (see Inagta Alabat language ) and Manide . Louward Allen Zubiri reports that there are 670 individuals in
28-564: The Katabangan community, and that there are also families living in Mulanay, Gumaca, Lopez, and Alabat. He also reports on a handful of vocabulary items remembered by the Katabangan which offer evidence for a close relationship of their now-lost language with Manide and Inagta Alabat. Reid (1994) lists the following Negrito languages. Reid (2013) considers the Philippine Negrito languages (highlighted in bold ) to have split in
35-587: The Northern Cordilleran branch, but rather a new branch that they call Northeastern Luzon , which they consider to be a primary branch of the Northern Luzon (Cordilleran) group. Ethnologue adds the extinct and unclassified Katabaga of Catanauan , Quezon , southern Luzon. The language was originally listed by Garvan. Katabaga is in fact a misspelling of Katabangan , the name that the people use to refer to themselves. Some people in
42-502: The following fashion. Reid (2013) considers each Negrito language or group to be a first-order split in its respective branch, with Inati and Manide – Alabat as first-order subgroups of Malayo-Polynesian . Lobel (2010) lists the following percentage of unique vocabulary items out of 1,000 compared words in these Negrito languages, which Reid (1994) suggests are lexical remnants from the pre-Austronesian substrata that these Negrito languages may have. Manide and Umiray Dumaget have
49-535: The most unique vocabulary items. Other Southeast Asian languages with high proportions of unique vocabulary of possible isolate origin include the Enggano language of Indonesia and the Kenaboi language of Malaysia. Reid (1994) lists the following reconstructed forms as possible non-Austronesian lexical elements in Philippine Negrito languages. Reid considers the endonym *ʔa(R)ta, meaning 'person', to have been
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