Atta language

Atta
Native to Philippines
Region Luzon
Ethnicity Aeta
Native speakers
2,000 (1998–2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
azt  Faire Atta
att  Pamplona Atta
atp  Pudtol Atta
dyg  Villa Viciosa Agta (?)
Glottolog atta1244[2]

Atta is a dialect cluster spoken by the Aeta (Agta) Negritos of the northern Philippines.

Varieties

There are three varieties according to Ethnologue.

Villa Viciosa Atta, supposed once spoken in Villaviciosa, Abra, is presumed to be related, but is unattested.[3]

Reid (1994) also reports the following locations for Southern Cagayan Agta.[4]

References

  1. Faire Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Pamplona Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Pudtol Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Villa Viciosa Agta (?) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Atta". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Villa Viciosa Atta". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Reid, Lawrence A. 1994. "Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages." In Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jun. 1994), pp. 37-72.
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