Inagta Partido (Isarog Agta) or alternatively Katubung[1] is a nearly extinct Bikol language spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer Agta (Negrito) people of the Philippines. It is found on Mount Isarog east of Naga City particularly in the town of Ocampo where the most recent survey of the language was conducted.[2]
| Inagta Partido | |
|---|---|
| Isarog Agta | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Ethnicity | Agta |
Native speakers | ~12 (2018) or 1,000 (1984)<refname=e18/> |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | agk |
| Glottolog | isar1235 |
| ELP | Isarog Agta |
According to Lobel (2013),[3] there are no speakers of Inagta Partido under 60. It is a moribund language. The Ethnologue cites a report from 2000 that there were then only five speakers from an ethnic population of about 1,000.[4]
Inagta Partido has borrowed heavily from Bikol languages such as Bikol Naga and Bikol Partido, but has a non-Bikol substratum.[5]
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References
- Lobel, Jason William (2013). Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Hawaii at Manoa.
- Imperial, Irvin Jen (May 2018). KATUBUNGI: A GRAMMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF ISAROG AGTA (KATUBUNG) AND SOME NOTES ON LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT AND EXTINCTION (BA Thesis). University of the Philippines Diliman.