Agta, Dupaninan

DUO

threatened

Alternate Names: Dupaningan Agta, Eastern Cagayan Agta

Dialects: Barongagunay, Bolos Point, Camonayan, Palaui Island, PeƱablanca, Roso (Southeast Cagayan), Santa Ana-Gonzaga, Santa Margarita, Tanglagan, Valley Cove, Yaga. Intelligibility of Yaga dialect 83%. Yaga and Central Cagayan Agta , are 63% intelligible. Lexical similarity: 51% between Central Cagayan Agta , and Tanglagan dialect, 66% between Central Cagayan Agta , and Yaga dialect.

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Philippine
Northern Luzon
Northern Cordilleran
Northeastern Luzon
Northern

Demographics: 1,200 (1986 SIL). Ethnic population: 1,500 (2007 L. Reid).

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: Below 1%. Grammar. NT: 2001.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Philippines