Dupaningan Agta

Dupaningan Agta (Dupaninan Agta), or Eastern Cagayan Agta, is a language spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer Negrito people of Cagayan and Isabela provinces in northern Luzon, Philippines. Its Yaga dialect is only partially intelligible.^[2]

Dupaningan Agta
Eastern Cagayan Agta
Native to	Philippines
Region	northern Luzon
Ethnicity	Aeta
Native speakers	1,400 (2008)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Luzon Northeastern Luzon[2] Dupaningan Agta
Dialects	Yaga Tanglagan Santa Ana-Gonzaga Barongagunay Palaui Island Valley Cove Bolos Point Peñablanca Roso (Southeast Cagayan) Santa Margarita
Language codes
ISO 639-3	duo
Glottolog	dupa1235
ELP	Dupaninan Agta
Area where Dupaningan Agta is spoken according to Ethnologue

Geographic distribution and dialects

Robinson (2008) reports Dupaningan Agta to be spoken by a total of about 1,400 people in about 35 scattered communities, each with 1-70 households.^[1]

• Palaui Island - Speakers do not consider themselves to be Dupaningan, but the language is very similar to that of the other Dupaningans.
• Nangaramuan, Santa Ana
• Barongagunay, Santa Clara, Santa Ana^[3]
• Valley Cove, Baggao^[3]
• Kattot
• Bolos a Ballek (Bolos Point) - village where the Dupaningan Agta language is most widely used
• Bolos a Dakal (Bolos, Maconacon, Isabela)
• Santa Clara, Gonzaga, Cagayan^[3]

Ethnologue reports Yaga, Tanglagan, Santa Ana-Gonzaga, Barongagunay, Palaui Island, Camonayan, Valley Cove, Bolos Point, Peñablanca, Roso (Southeast Cagayan), Santa Margarita as dialects of Dupaningan Agta.^[4]

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Stop	p b	t d	k g	(ʔ)
Nasal	m	n	ŋ
Trill/Tap		r~ɾ
Lateral		l
Fricative		s		h
Glide	w	j

Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right is voiced.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e		o
Low		a

/a, e/ have lax allophones of [ə, ɛ].