Ata language (Negros)
Appearance
Ata | |
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Native to | Philippines |
Region | Negros Island |
Extinct | (3–4 elderly speakers reported in 2013)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | atm |
Glottolog | ataa1240 |
ELP | Ata |
Ata is a nearly extinct Philippine Negrito language spoken in Negros Island in the Visayas region of the Philippines.
As of 2013, Ata was reportedly spoken by no more than three or four elderly individuals in northern Negros Island, Philippines,[1] although two of those died in 2021.
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Lobel (2013), p. 85
References
[edit]- Lobel, Jason William (2013). Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawaii at Manoa.